Tag: Digital Transformation

Under the patronage of the CEO of Festo AG & Co. KG, Dr. h.c. Oliver Jung, Dean of the Diesel Board of Trustees, the Colloquium of the Graduate School will take place on May 8th and 9th in the Technology and Automation Center of Festo in Esslingen.

More than thirty heads of industrial IP departments and operational IP experts are active as mentors for the Diesel Medal Graduate School. Thanks to the mentors, the research work at the graduate school is successfully embedded in industrial practice. ...

Kleenex is synonymous with paper tissues, Aspirin with pain killers, Scotch with adhesive tape, and BIC with correction pens. In fact, these brands have lent their names to entire product categories, evoking direct associations with quality and functi ...

At the beginning of the day, the questions in the room were “Is anything new with Industry 4.0 and IP?” and “Is it possible to protect anything at all in digital business models?”. At the end of the conference, the last panel discussion summed up the ...

„Challenges of digitalization for IP departments” was the title of Beat Weibel’s lecture at the VPP spring conference in Stuttgart. He describes a future scenario for IP work under the framework conditions of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, compl ...

12-13 April, more than 60 technology directors met at the CTO spring forum at the headquarters of the Fraunhofer Society in Munich. This meeting dealt with the question of the role of the CTO in digitization. Is it primarily a technical challenge or i ...

During the last decade, the important decrease of sensors’ cost, and their miniaturisation enabled the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The latter can be defined as “an internet of things, machines, computers and people enabling ...

Claas, Viessmann, Wissensfabrik and the television format Quarks & Co were awarded Germany’s oldest innovation prize on April 7th in Munich. The prizes were accepted by Helmut Claas and Dr. Nathalie von Siemens for the knowledge factory, who ...

At the Rudolf Diesel reception on the occasion of the award of the Rudolf diesel medals on April 7, 2017, Microsoft presented the HoloLens, the next generation of the human-machine interface. The participants were able to immerse themselves in the wor ...