Dive into this whitepaper to explore the strategic approach of the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Platform, see how it can be used to streamline digital initiatives across operations, and learn how it effectively raises the digital maturity of organizations while ensuring compliance with global standards.

This whitepaper is dedicated to presenting the significance of open IIoT architectures. By examining the core principles that define openness, case studies from real example solutions, and expert insights, we will explain and show the wide-ranging ways open IIoT architectures drive sustainable innovation, elevate business value, and secure the future of your business.

Activities on plant and corporate level are to be coordinated and aligned to agile and continuous value creation. This paper reveals, how industry champions from the chemical process industry face the current situation and which tools they use to shape their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.

Today, seeking for market leadership implies a worldwide footprint representation. In this environment, a company’s long-term competitiveness is strongly depending on agility which enables faster adaptation tno changing and diverse requirements. This paper reveals, how manufacturing companies are managing their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.

Smart services – an effective triad of product, service and customer-centric value proposition – offer opportunities for manufacturing-focused companies to achieve differentiation and seize new market opportunities. This acatech study presents a maturity model with six structural areas for transforming manufacturing-focused companies into smart service providers. Using a specially developed toolkit, companies can be guided through the adoption of a smart service business.

Experience from the application of the Industry 4.0 Maturity Index shows that the fourth industrial revolution cannot be realized by implementing individual, isolated prototypes. The German manufacturing industry has now recognised this. Rather, the focus today is on designing systematic transformation programmes which aim for clear added value and are stringently structured.

How can companies prioritize their digitalization measures and build a roadmap that considers all structural aspects of a production plant? Here is a way to do it!