Digitalization at Festo: Our Way in Digital Transformation
Andreas Oroszi, Festo AG & Co. KG, Germany
Industry 4.0 and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities
László Monostori, Independent Researcher, Hungary
Digitalization at Festo: Our Way in Digital Transformation
Brief Bio
Andreas Oroszi is Senior Vice President at Festo AG & Co. KG, a world leading company in industrial automation with headquarters in Esslingen. Festo has a worldwide presence, with 61 companies, 250 branches and more than 20,000 employees.
In his long career with Festo he has been an automation technology and technical management expert, and as part of those roles he was already investigating how to integrate IT in industrial automation applications for Festo back in the 1980s. Since then he has taken up positions with responsibility for market communication, technical marketing and product services. Digitalisation of customer interfaces, digital services as well as the related development and process platform were an especially important focus topic. Since the start of 2017 Andreas Oroszi is Head of Digital Business at Festo and drives the company's digital transformation with regard to the market opportunities for Industry 4.0.
In addition, he is Joint Managing Director of Resolto Informatik GmbH, headquartered in Herford, a software company for analytics and artificial intelligence. Andreas Oroszi is author of numerous scientific publications on the subject of knowledge management, configuration and the development of complex systems.
In January 2018 he became Member of the Management Board for MindSphere World Association, a worldwide user organisation for the open IoT operation system of Siemens AG.
Abstract
As an innovative company and technology leader in industrial automation, Festo is embracing digitalization and Industry 4.0. This is underpinned by having an increasing product portfolio of automation components that are compatible with the Internet of Things as well as specially developed digital products and services. The objective is clear: creating added value for customers and increase efficiency and productivity. In addition, Festo is striving to provide customers with digital support as part of its customer-oriented "Digital Customer Journey". By offering digital tools for selection, configuration and digital support for the entire life cycle of a system. Not only has Festo started to undertake numerous activities related to digitalization and Industry 4.0 for its customers, it is also doing so for its own value creation chain and business processes. As part of the digital transformation, Festo pays particular attention to the topics of people as well as Training 4.0. New digital technology requires a different way of working together, as well as new concepts for basic and further education.
Industry 4.0 and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities
László Monostori
Independent Researcher
Hungary
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Brief Bio
Prof. László Monostori, Director of the Research Institute on Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), and full professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is President of the Industry 4.0 National Technology Platform, Hungary.He is former President of The International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP); Past Chairman of the Coordinating Committee on Manufacturing and Logistics Systems, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC); Former Chairman of the Technical Committee on Technical Diagnostics, International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO); member of the European Academy for Industrial Management (AIM) and of the International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET). He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology and member of the editorial boards of numerous international scientific periodicals. For his research achievements published in 430+ publications resulted in a significant number of citations (Google Scholar: 8300+, Scopus: 4200+, WoS: 2600+) and for his development activities – among others – the Dennis Gabor Prize, the Civil Decoration of the Knight’s Cross Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary and the Széchenyi Prize were given to him.Prof. Monostori is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, acatech), and foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB).
Abstract
Cyber-Physical Systems which are systems of collaborating computational entities which are in intensive connection with the surrounding physical world and its on-going processes, providing and using, at the same time, data-accessing and data-processing services available on the internet. Cyber-Physical Production Systems relying on the newest and foreseeable further developments of computer science, information and communication technologies, and of manufacturing science and technology, form the basics of the 4th Industrial Revolution, frequently noted as Industry 4.0.
In the key-note presentation expectations and related new R&D challenges will be demonstrated. Some activities run in Hungary, partly in the frameworks of large-scale international cooperation will be introduced, including biologicalisation, i.e. the biological transformation in manufacturing. Finally, the possible long-term consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing are analysed.