WORLD OF INDUSTRIES 2/2020

EDITORIAL
Digitalization has
long been in everyday
industrial use
Dear readers,
The World of Industries editorial team often wonder what will be the
largest challenge industrial companies face in coming years. As can
be expected, there is currently a lot of uncertainty with regard to the
long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2. However our research and surveys
repeatedly tell us that the effects of the pandemic are not considered a
major challenge for future business, neither is climate change or trade
wars. Instead, managers in industrial companies believe technological
changes in the context of digitalization is the main challenge they
are facing.
The editorial team was rather surprised by these results and believes
they should be considered with a certain amount of skepticism. In
this issue, we will therefore focus on digitalization technologies that
have been successfully implemented in the industrial sector for a long
time: A digital market to supply spare parts, decentralized data
management as part of the Industrial Internet of Things, high-performance
milling machines that are fit for Industry 4.0.
These are just a few examples of a digitalized reality that is already
being implemented. I believe the uncertainty around this subject is
due to the fact that many decision makers have the latent feeling that
digitalization measures in their own company are inadequate and are
never really complete because they are always
focusing on a type of “digitalization standard”.
However, it must be noted that the actual number
of measures is not significant. The deciding factor
is to consider which types of data collection or
networking measures are sensible for your own
company and how large quantities of data are
processed in a productive way.
Let yourself be inspired while reading the
current issue.
Manfred Weber
m.weber@vfmz.de
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