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Composable Software – Why Now The Technology Becomes Important
Industrial software is supposed to support work steps or entire processes in industry, automate them and make them more efficient. How this was done by the software providers and their developers was of little interest to industry in recent decades. Which algorithms were used,...
Everything Like Back Then – And Yet Quite Different
Open standards, container software, apps and APIs, web services instead of software licenses - when it comes to industrial software, there is currently a spirit of optimism with numerous companies being founded, just as I experienced 30 or 40 years ago in the birth of CAD and...
Thuringian Mechanical Engineering Day and reactions to my keynote
The State Development Corporation of Thuringia (LEG), together with the Thuringian Center for Mechanical Engineering and the Technical University of Ilmenau, invited participants to the 5th Thuringian Mechanical Engineering Day under the motto of resource efficiency....
“AI Compass” Now Also On The Chinese Market
Now, my AI Compass is also available in Chinese. With a translation by Yongmei Chen-Wegmann, who has lived and worked in Germany for many years and attached great importance to understanding my text in depth. That was a good collaboration. Now the book can also be purchased in...
Keynote Sendler At Thuringian Mechanical Engineering Day
On October 6, the Thuringian Center for Mechanical Engineering, together with the Thuringian ClusterManagement of LEG Thuringian, invites you to the 5th Thuringian Mechanical Engineering Day in Erfurt at COMCENTER Brühl. The theme of the event this year: "Resource efficiency...
The Importance Of Small And Medium Enterprises At A Glance
The figures are publicly available. Yet almost no one knows them, because the media and associations tend to keep quiet about these figures. I searched in vain for descriptive graphics that provide information on the composition of industry by company size class. Then I...
So That Industry Remains The Heart Of The Economy
Just under a quarter of all working people in Germany are still employed in industry. In contrast to almost all other industrialized countries. That is what accounts for our relative stability. Economically, politically and socially. To ensure that it stays that way, I am now...
Friedrich Ebert Foundation Panel On The Welfare State
On June 17, at 11:45 a.m., I will be taking part in an online panel organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In the hope of making it clear that digitalization and the reshaping of industry can only work if the welfare state is revived and the privatization of further areas...
I Have A Dream: Digital Industry Circle
The digitalization of industry demands that we embark on a new path never before taken in the industry: from tangible to intangible value creation. To do this, the right people must come together to do what is necessary, together. That is my dream. It is...
Industry Policy – The Time is Pressing
Germany is a strong industrial location. The products are good. We are far ahead. But we could soon be facing the same situation as the USA and Great Britain: Industrial wasteland and, as a result, a deeply divided society. If we do nothing.(The graphic is taken from my book...