Potentials of "Industrie 4.0" for the optics manufacturing industry
Abstract
While ""Industrie 4.0"" had been a new and unknown term at the Hannover Fair in 2011, it has now, five years later, become one of the most widely used expressions in the context of production discussions in most industry branches. ""What does Industrie 4.0 mean?"" This question was asked quite frequently and, as a matter of fact, it could only be answered ambiguously in the past five years. But since every company has a different understanding of this buzz-word, a general definition cannot be given at all.
