Tag: Industry 4.0

On 23 March 2017, Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Kettner, Group Senior Director Innovation Excellence, reported on the integration of the IP and innovation process landscape at Wilo during his dinner speech at the Master’s Program for Intellectual Property L ...

The Executive Management Days are dedicated to the methodical development of successful IP strategies for digitized business models. The workshops will take place in October 2017 at the CEIPI – University of Strasbourg. Example cases from differ ...

Speakers from Google, Philips, BASF, ABB, Air Liquide, WIPO, Universities of Gothenbourg, Boulder Colorado, Washington, Lausanne, Bordeaux, Paris and Surrey will present insights to the digital transformation and its consequences to the  management of ...

Which role will IP play as a competitive instrument for the German industry in digitalization and in the Internet of Things? How do technology companies in this country have to position themselves with their IP and IP management in a globalized race f ...

Europe’s market leader in agricultural engineering, the company Claas from Harsewinkel, has successfully faced the change in agricultural machinery technology. With sales of 3.8 billion €, Claas is one of the leading companies in their industry ...

In the IP community, the 360 ° IP strategy with the case studies on the implementation of the IP design approach at the companies Vorwerk, Stöbich, Abus, Wilo, IFM, etc. was very well received. Some of the readers’ opinions are summarized here. ...

In a very entertaining and impressive way, the two speakers Kai Schäffner, President of Vorwerk USA and Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Managing Director Wurzer & Kollegen, described the success story of the new Thermomix TM5 in the Marketing Club Mun ...

In addition to the digitization of production, Industry 4.0 is also about the digitization of product development. What should be considered when networking and creating platforms? How does the interaction between product development and production ta ...

As the “Brand of the Century”, the ABUS brand stands for German quality in security technology, as well as for innovation and design. This is what the awards from Abus in recent years stand for, e.g. the “Most Innovative Brand Award” and the “Red Dot ...

In the McKinsey & Company study “Industry 4.0 – How to navigate digitization of the manufacturing sector”, the management consultants show which important trends there are around the next stage of the industrial revolution; The a ...