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Industry 4.0 / Internet of Things

Several studies, such as Cisco, estimate that by 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. In the production and manufacturing industry, this leads to intensive networking in the manufacturing area, between production area and office area as well as between producers, suppliers, sales partners and customers. This allows greater flexibility in production, lower costs and new value creation models, such as a customized and economical one-off production of products that were previously only produced in larger series. On the one hand, new scalable communication technologies such as M2M, the Internet protocol IPv6 or real-time-capable wireless and wired transmission technologies are required,