Translations: Implementation Strategy Industrie 4.0

The term INDUSTRIE 4.0 has spread quickly and finds international interest among producers, relevant technology-oriented industries, research and policy. The implementation strategy for INDUSTRIE 4.0 provided here for download was drawn up by the Industrie 4.0 Platform (organized by the associations Bitkom, VDMA, ZVEI) in partnership with industry companies in Germany and other associations. Executives, professionals and consultants are in particular addressed as well as all persons who are interested in the picture of the future of the industry or who want to help to shape it.

Originally only available in German, the paper for some time is also published in Japanese and now translated into English and Korean.Especially with the Background of global markets a framework should be established with a reference architecture for INDUSTRIE 4.0 to drive forward digitization and comprehensive networking of products and production.