Industrie 4.0, CESMII partner in interoperability, platform sharing

16 Apr 2021 Editorial Team

Plattform Industrie 4.0 (Germany) and CESMII (US) announced their partnership to address challenges and needs related to Industrie 4.0. For both manufacturing economies to compete, they need international collaboration to achieve major tasks like semantic interoperability, create data sharing platforms, develop workforce skills, and foster sustainable production.

CESMII accepted the invitation of Plattform Industrie 4.0 panel shaping digital ecosystems globally at the Hannover Messe, which will be live streamed on the Intelligent Production Channel. A video demonstrator on interoperability will also be shown (via LNI 4.0) at the event.

Plattform Industrie 4.0 supports German companies with use cases, information offers and recommendations for action on the implementation of Industrie 4.0.

CESMII is the US national institute on manufacturing, driving cultural and technological transformation and secure industrial technologies.

Written from a company news release.

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