Industrial 4.0 has a German firm rate...

The concept of "industry 4.0" was initially formed and promoted under the advice and promotion of German academics and industry and rose to Germany's national strategy. Today, "Industry 4.0" has swept the world, as investors are familiar with the hot words."First Financial Daily" recently visited the hometown of industrial 4.0 - Germany, the field visited the Bosch and other automobile factories, the industry 4.0 has an intuitive, emotional understanding.

In an interview with this newspaper, the German Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Scientific Officer, Germany Industrial 4.0 Working Group Human Resources Chairman Wolfgang Wahlster (WolfgangWahlster) told reporters that in Germany, there are already including Bosch Within the enterprise began to try the development model of industry 4.0. He believes that with the passage of time, with the strong support of the German government, the Internet in the next 10 years will be fully promoted in the industry.

German companies have been trying to industrial 4.0
First Financial Daily: German industry 4.0 plan, on the current industrial production will have what kind of impact
Walter: Industrial 4.0's main goal is to achieve a highly personalized product upgrade manufacturing, and the cost is equivalent to the cost of large machine production, not very expensive. This means that large production can be carried out in new ways. We believe that more and more low-value production of the industry will be mixed with high-tech, you can use the same factory to produce more and more different products. In the past, especially in countries such as China, through the traditional large-scale production, the production of standardized products, of course, this is still a market. However, now the needs of consumers more and more diversified, updated soon, which requires us to change the mode of production.

Daily: Industry 4.0 is still in the blueprint and the experimental stage or has been widely used in the German company
Walter: From two perspectives, first of all, if you are going to build a brand new factory, of course the direct use of the most advanced industrial 4.0 technology is the best. In Germany there are already such factories built. As far as we know, there are three such factories built last year, is to industrial 4.0 technical principles to build.

Second, we can also be the existing production methods and systems for technical updates, and gradually transformed into the network system. There are also some examples, for example, Bosch company has a factory on the one hand continue to use the previous production technology and model, on the other hand there are some have been completely updated to the industry 4.0 network production model. Of course, these updates and changes take time to step by step.

Every time the industrial revolution takes some time to complete, I believe that it would take about 10 years to complete such a change in Germany. Over the past year, only five factories have realized the renewal and transformation of such technologies and production methods.

Daily News: Now what industries have begun to adopt
Walter: In the long run, intelligent factories will be implemented in many industries. But at present, the "tailoring" mode of production, that is, according to individual needs customized personalized production methods, the automotive industry has been used for some time, but the amount is very small. Such as the BMW factory about two years a year is two cars according to "personalized" design and manufacturing. Another example is the food industry in this direction the pace of efforts quickly. For example, the factory production of cereal products, you can get through the network you want the first combination of ingredients, and then according to your taste, you want to produce a specific cereal. In the luxury market has the same example. For example, you can prepare your own taste of perfume. At the same time, perfume packaging patterns can be personalized.

In the traditional industry, the packaging changes will be very difficult, but the use of 4.0 technology, as long as a few minutes, you can use the existing machine to produce new packaging. In addition, the long term, in the medical field, we have begun in the field of medicine and pharmacies to carry out relevant research, once the cost reduction, can also be personalized use. At present we spend $ 500 to $ 1,000 to obtain the individual gene sequence of the patient, and then we can provide the drug according to the individual's genetic situation. This is the production of personalized drugs.

Industry 4.0 promotion needs to be gradual
Daily News: As a government strategic plan to promote the industry 4.0 must be the government's strong support. So what are the current barriers to technology and money?
Walter: For Germany, this is a huge wave, the government has a lot of support, we have a lot of small and medium enterprises are also very active in the development of industrial 4.0 research and development. For the company, this is a huge investment, they get a certain subsidy from the government and start the funds. Because it is a wave, so we have IT technology associations, electronic engineering associations, as well as many companies and enterprises to work together. This is very important because the business through the Internet is the need to cooperate with each other in order to make the machine and machine dialogue can be achieved. In Germany, employment is highly dependent on industry and the foundations of manufacturing are solid.
Daily: Realize Industry 4.0 Have Timetable? When Can We See This New Manufacturing Model Get Full Application

Walter: I think in the next 5 to 10 years time it Over the next 10 years, Internet applications will be fully promoted in the industry, of course, this is a gradual process, because we have some large-scale enterprise transformation requires a lot of investment. We need to find a suitable way and channel to help these large-scale enterprise transformation, promotion to another new production mode.
Daily News: Industrial 4.0 to promote the process, the Chinese market to consider and what aspects of cooperation in China

Walter: Of course, China is Germany's largest producer of production technology, for us is very important. In addition, there are many Chinese companies are building factories, which is a great opportunity to directly use the industry 4.0 technology.
Now in China, there are areas where you want to build manufacturing, and have the opportunity to introduce the most advanced technology directly. I believe that this must be done.