The standardisation of digital production processes is progressing. Now a first application case from the ZVEI Industrie 4.0 Leadership Committee for the asset administration shell, the digital image of an object, is ready for implementation.

Data, data, and more data: Digitisation is creating huge amounts of it. What to do with it - and how? The transition to a data and platform economy is not only on its way, it is already on the doorstep.

The upcoming 5G generation of mobile communications is of great importance for industry. The 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) has set itself the goal of successfully establishing 5G in industrial production and making it industry-capable from the outset. The initiative brings together representatives of the classic automation and manufacturing industry as well as leading organizations from the ICT industry.

Information technology has become an integral part of our daily work. People and things hang equally and almost everywhere in and on the internet. Office and production processes gradually become part of a cross-company network, the so-called Internet of Things and Services.

The possibility of operating one's own 5G networks is important for future viability of Germany as a business location. The decision of the Bundesnetzagentur on the allocation of 5G frequencies in Germany, which in addition to the nationwide auction of frequencies also provides for an allocation of local and regional frequencies on application, is therefore the right step.