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Benchmark Whitepaper on Industry 4.0: Discover the Hidden Challenges of Slow-Movers and Strategies of Front-Runners

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Benchmark Whitepaper on Industry 4.0: Discover the Hidden Challenges of Slow-Movers and Strategies of Front-Runners
Gain exclusive insights from a detailed analysis of over 387 assessments conducted across 112 companies in more than 40 countries. This global study examines over 100,000 Industry 4.0-related capabilities, offering a comprehensive view of digital transformation progress worldwide.

How are companies progressing with their digital transformation?

This exclusive benchmark whitepaper provides a detailed analysis of Industrie 4.0 Maturity based on data obtained through the use of the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index. It offers insights into the challenges and opportunities companies face as they navigate the digital landscape.

Discover how organizations are tackling gaps in technological capabilities, leveraging cultural readiness, and overcoming regional and industry-specific hurdles. With data collected from over hundreds of companies worldwide, this whitepaper explores what sets digital leaders apart and what still holds many organizations back.

Get a closer look at how diverse industries, from automotive to medical devices, are approaching digitalization and how regional dynamics influence progress. Whether you’re a global enterprise or an agile small business, this whitepaper offers actionable insights to shape your transformation strategy.

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Authors

Sebastian-Schmitz
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schmitz

Partner

Mail: sebastian.schmitz@i40mc.de
Mobile: +49 151 44158101

Jonas-Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann

Manager

Mail: jonas.kaufmann@i40mc.de
Mobile: +49 151 44158105‬

Julian-Witowski
Julian Witowski

Consultant

Mail: julian.witowski@i40mc.de
Mobile: +49 170 2055094‬

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Breaking Barriers – Implementing IoT-enabled Smart Services for Competitive Advantages 

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Breaking Barriers – Implementing IoT-enabled Smart Services for Competitive Advantages 

Discover the Future of Industrial Transformation

Is your business ready to embrace the transition to data-driven, smart service models? Our whitepaper, “Breaking Barriers: Implementing IoT-enabled Smart Services for Competitive Advantages”, offers a comprehensive guide to leveraging IoT-enabled Smart Services to drive your transformation, powered by the proven acatech Smart Service Maturity Index.


What You Will Gain


This whitepaper dives into:

  • Best practices and challenges for designing, developing, and commercializing smart services in manufacturing industries.

  • Exclusive insights from four real-world case studies, showcasing how companies have used the acatech Smart Service Maturity Index to create tailored transformation roadmaps.

  • Practical recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness during the transformation journey – covering more than technology, culture, and organization.


Why IoT-based, smart services?

The shift from product-centric business models to IoT-enabled smart services unlocks new revenue streams, optimizes processes, and strengthens customer relationships. However, this transformation brings unique challenges:

  • Complexities in data management and technology integration

  • Building new skills and developing innovative business models

  • Driving cultural and organizational change

This whitepaper offers valuable and practical insights designed to help you navigate various challenges effectively. It aims to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to leverage the power of smart services, ultimately enabling you to achieve sustainable competitive advantages in your industry.


Who Should Read This Whitepaper?

  • Industrial Leaders: Discover how to leverage digital and IoT capabilities to create new business opportunities.

  • Transformation Managers: Learn how to navigate the strategic and operational complexities of the transition.

  • Researchers: Gain inspiration for real-world research questions to advance the understanding of smart services.

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Learn how leading companies have used the acatech Smart Service Maturity Index to drive their digital transformation. Download the whitepaper now to get practical recommendations and unlock the full potential of smart services for your organization.

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RWTH Certificate Course: Digital Transformation Expert Oct 07-11, 2024

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RWTH Certificate Course: Digital Transformation Expert Oct 07-11, 2024
With our “Digital Transformation Expert” course certified by the RWTH Aachen International Academy, you will learn the knowledge, methods and tools to lead your company through the digital transformation in a secure and goal-oriented manner.

The course takes place in one module from October 7 – 11, 2024 in English and is aimed at specialists and managers who are responsible for coordinating and implementing the digital transformation in their own company.

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Your contact persons

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Christian Weiler, M.Sc.
Course Content Lead | Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center
christian.weiler@i40mc.de
+49 241 412 522-62
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Simone Lüke, M.A.
Course Organization Lead | Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center
simone.lueke@i40mc.de
+49 241 412 522-62
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Whitepaper: Realizing Open IIoT Architectures to Scale Industrie 4.0

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Whitepaper: Realizing Open IIoT Architectures to Scale Industrie 4.0
Embracing Open Architectures: The Key to Sustainable Innovation

In a world of technological innovation, manufacturing companies find themselves at the crossroads of a far-reaching evolution. Industrie 4.0 is reshaping the foundations of manufacturing, starting an era where interconnected devices, real-time data, and intelligent automation converge to redefine how businesses operate and compete. A pivotal role in this transformation plays the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a dynamic force that has the potential to elevate industries to new heights. In this whitepaper, we start a journey to explore the importance of open IIoT architectures, dissolving the hidden connections behind current trends, architectural principles, and the capability to enhance business value over time. With the proper architectural realization, you can reduce pointless initiatives and escape the pilot purgatory.

As digitalization has become the main topic for manufacturing companies in the last decade, those companies are witnessing a paradigm change that underlines the need for open and flexible Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architectures. The wide spreading of sensors, ubiquitous connectivity, and data-driven decision-making are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Industry leaders recognize that addressing these trends requires a fundamental shift in how their digital infrastructures are conceived and implemented.

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.

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Whitepaper: Industrie 4.0 at scale – Insights from the process industry

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Whitepaper: Industrie 4.0 at scale – Insights from the process industry

Staying ahead in a fast-moving industry

The process industry is fundamental to every developed economy. In 2021, revenues of the chemical industry in the European Union summed up to over 1038 bn. euros, representing around 7.2 percent of the yearly gross domestic product (Eurostat 2022, Statista 2022). The markets for chemical products are constantly evolving, driven by global competition and high consumer expectations, as chemical products are included in almost every manufactured product. In this environment, a company’s long-term competitiveness is strongly depending on agility that enables faster adaptation to changing and diverse requirements. Simultaneously, many companies struggle with achieving the performance targets for their production and supporting processes in the short term. Digital transformation on the path to Industrie 4.0 allows to successively advance both agility and operational performance.

A survey conducted in 2019 found that about two-thirds of the innovation managers surveyed see implementation as the most difficult phase in the innovation strategy process (Glaß 2020). Identified potentials, in particular at interfaces and by scaling, are only seldomly converted into returns. Failure can largely be attributed to an insufficient match of activities and the neglection of necessary cultural and organizational change. Consequently, there is a need of an overarching plan that integrates individual projects into a consistent and targeted program with a clear focus on value.

This paper reveals, how industry champions from the chemical process industry face the presented situation and which tools they use to shape their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.

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Whitepaper: How to Transform Manufacturing Companies

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Whitepaper: How to Transform Manufacturing Companies
This paper reveals, how manufacturing companies are managing their individual path towards Industrie 4.0.

 

Manufacturing is an important sector in most economies worldwide. Industrialization and automatization have entailed great advances in production processes over the past two centuries. 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 to changing and diverse requirements. Simultaneously, many companies struggle with achieving the performance targets for their production and supporting processes in the short term. Digital Transformation on the path to Industrie 4.0. allows to successively advance both agility and operational performance.

Digital Transformation can turn out differently for each individual production plant. This is because the advantages of digital possibilities strongly depend on the overall characteristics of the plant, its current digital maturity, its cost structure as well as its current capacity utilization. Based on that information, the status quo can be described, and a digitalization strategy can be generated. This paper reveals an approach on the creation of a holistic digitalization roadmap.

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Whitepaper: Value of Digital – Strategic Reflections on Industrie 4.0

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Whitepaper: Value of Digital – Strategic Reflections on Industrie 4.0

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!

When it comes to conceptualizing and conducting digital transformation measures most production sites follow a similar procedure. The task is distributed between several experts which work on it in a separate and uncoordinated way thus producing inefficient and irrelevant solutions with little to no measurable effect. To conduct an efficient and potent transformation companies must pinpoint the most relevant areas and consistently need to invest in their improvement first.

Digital Transformation can turn out differently for each individual production plant. This is because the advantages of digital possibilities strongly depend on the overall characteristics of the plant, its current digital maturity, its cost structure as well as its current capacity utilization. Based on that information, the status quo can be described, and a digitalization strategy can be generated. This paper reveals an approach on the creation of a holistic digitalization roadmap.

 

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Wipro, Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center Ink Strategic Partnership

Combined expertise will enable manufacturing companies to efficiently implement end-to-end Enterprise Digital Transformation

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About Wipro Limited

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 175,000 dedicated employees serving clients across six continents. Together, we discover ideas and connect the dots to build a better and a bold new future.

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“We are looking forward to the cooperation with a leading technology company. Our competencies complement each other in an ideal way. We are providing the management frameworks and tools while Wipro will be realizing the digital transformation. Together we will be able to serve our customers with tailor-made transformation projects to become a data-driven, agile company.”

– Dipl.-Inform. Christian Hocken, MBA
Managing Partner

“Manufacturing organizations today have a disordered landscape of isolated POCs and prototypes that do not create any benefit to the business. Through our partnership we will help these companies define and implement the right measures to apply technology effectively,”

– Dr.-Ing. Tobias Harland
Senior Manager Industrial Practice
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New Strategic Partnership with Mark Global B.V.

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New Strategic Partnership with Mark Global B.V.
Mark Global B.V., a leading Dutch business development company that provides next practice direction, guidance and operational execution support to the business leaders of tomorrow, and the i4.0MC – Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center announce a strategic partnership to drive awareness and adoption of digital transformation at manufacturing companies in The Netherlands.

Dipl.-Inform. Christian Hocken, MBA, Managing Partner at the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center:  “We are pleased to be able to bring our experience in the German and international markets to the Netherlands as well. The cooperation shall enable Dutch innovating hubs to leverage the best from two approaches: enhanced business development paired with superior internal digital transformation.”

Mark Litjens, founder and CEO of Mark Global; the partnership with the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center strengthens our strategy to be the preferred business development partner for manufacturing organizations that want to lead in the fast changing world. The Industry 4.0 Maturity Index framework adds incremental value to the Mark Global NxXT approach for Industry. Together we are able to deliver a truly transformational growth approach by shaping an Industrie 4.0 vision, a clear strategy and a detailed roadmap for manufacturing organizations.

About Mark Global:

Mark Global is an entrepreneurial team of new trades, which is dedicated to guide technology-based and knowledge-intensive companies, machine OEM’s and (manufacturing) industries in their business development challenges at strategic, tactical and operational levels.

www.mark-global.com

Contact:

Mark Litjens, founder and CEO

E: mark.litjens@mark-global.com

T: +31(0)6 525 93 224