Industrial Autonomy

Maturity models in digital transformation – an interview with Dr. Violett Zeller

Many different questions pose major challenges for companies entering the digital transformation.  Maturity models can provide great support in answering them. But even later on, an examination of the status quo is essential in order to be able to adapt existing strategies to changing circumstances in an agile manner. We talked to Dr Violett Zeller, Chair of the VDI/VDE Digital Transformation Department, about what maturity models are all about and how companies can find the right model for them. Join us on our blog for this and other topics on digital transformation in the process industry.

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The future of Predictive Maintenance

When we discuss the increasingly hot topic of Industry 4.0, we tend to limit the focus to products and solutions, forgetting that this industrial revolution revolves around the human factor. The purpose of the digital transformation we are facing is not to remove people from the big picture, but to make their work easier. This is the starting point for this simple experiment, which we highlight in our new blog article “The future of Predictive Maintenance”:

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A city within a state? The process plant

The people of ancient Greece worshipped the goddess Automatia (“the one who comes by herself”). In addition, the Greeks at that time created city states (polis) with the claim of “autonomia”, to live as an independent unit. Today, on the journey from industrial automation to industrial autonomy, we are using an understanding that people already had in ancient times. However, the question remains: will the process plant of today develop into an autonomous polis?

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