In mid-December 2022, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Wegener, spokesman for ZVEI's Industry 4.0 management group, presented the ZVEI show case PCF@Control Cabinet to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Transport Minister Volker Wissing, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Anna Christmann, BMWK Commissioner for the Digital Economy, at the Digital Summit. The Digital Summit is organised annually by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV).

The lever to a climate-friendly future lies in comprehensive electrification and digitization. On the road to a sustainable economy, the innovative automation industry has an important role to play. Digital transformation in automation provides the basis for greater resilience, flexibility and sustainability in production. In the past, the ZVEI Automation Division has shown impressive examples of how this path is to be taken. Major CO2 savings have been achieved, for example, with developments in the DC-INDUSTRIE direct current research project and the digital nameplate.