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Wolfgang Dorst, Director Business Development Industry 4.0 at ROI Management Consulting AG, will give the keynote speech on the first day of the congress. © ROI

We have now been able to secure Wolfgang Dorst as a keynote speaker for the first day of the congress. He is Director Business Development Industry 4.0 at ROI Management Consulting AG. He is a co-founder of the Labs Network Industrie 4.0 e.V. and the Industrie 4.0 association platform, which was led by Bitkom, VDMA and ZVEI from 2013 to 2015. He was previously a member of the core team of authors of the Industry 4.0 working group of the German government's Research Union. He can look back on more than 30 years of experience in the IT and communications market - many of them in sales and technical roles. Before joining ROI, he worked for Bitkom, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Amdahl, Digital Equipment and Carl Zeiss. His professional career began with an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and a degree in electrical engineering.

In his keynote speech "From lighthouse to hall floor - How to make the leap into the implementation phase of digital transformation", he will provide insights into his daily work and his many years of experience in IT and industry.

The keynote

The digitalization of German industry is currently undergoing a massive upheaval: after years of experimentation and lighthouse projects, the basic principles, goals and technology components of Industry 4.0 are largely known in most companies. Now the focus is on implementation and the question of how to get Industry 4.0 "on the road" or "on the shop floor" across the board.

Two sometimes seemingly contradictory objectives come together here: the optimization of existing production systems with the help of digital technologies on the one hand, and the development of completely new production processes and process models on the other. Thinking about and uniting these two perspectives of Industry 4.0 in terms of digital ambidexterity is becoming the central challenge of digital transformation.

But how can highly automated and steady-state systems in the manufacturing industry free themselves from the line and the cycle in favor of agile production? What role do digital assistance systems that support employees on the store floor and autonomous systems that make decisions independently play in this? And what are the organizational and procedural hurdles to end-to-end value stream digitization?

The presentation will highlight the challenges and solutions for transferring Industry 4.0 concepts into industrial practice. The focus is on an understanding of Industry 4.0 that goes beyond the mere continuation of the automation of production processes and takes a new look at existing production processes with the help of IT.

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