Industry 4.0
The capital region Berlin-Brandenburg with its excellent research landscape and high-tech start-up scene offers a great opportunity for companies from Industry 4.0.
Industry 4.0 – the complete networking of industrial production using IP-based networks to increase the efficiency and flexibility of enterprises. It is still the #1 topic on the minds of those thinking about the future of industry. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is an outstanding center for research. Its vibrant high-tech start-up scene offers manufacturing companies in all industries a wide range of digital innovations and competent cooperation partners.
Industry 5.0 – a supplementary concept to Industry 4.0, in which the production processes are to be made more human, more sustainable and more resilient. The aim is full cooperation between man and machine in order to strengthen and complement one another. The Berlin Startup 5th Industry for example, already focuses on people and works highly efficiently in a digital environment. As a company, Stryza has developed a dynamic work platform for the digitalization of workflows and knowledge. German Bionic builds exoskeletons that help employees carry heavy loads. The exosystem improves over time through the use of AI.
Why Berlin?
„R3 helps industrial companies make production systems more flexible as products are increasingly individualized. In so doing so, we let machines 'off the leash,' so to speak, and ensure fail-safe, powerful, and real-time wireless communication. With plug-and-play hardware and software tools for installation and monitoring, it is easier than ever to set up wireless networks for use in industry. With Berlin as a magnet for skilled workers, we have already been able to attract great international minds from seven different nations.“
Why Berlin?
„What good is it to predict a machine failure if you don't know why or what you can do about it? At HTW Berlin, Berlin's largest university of applied sciences, we research and teach the next level: explainable artificial intelligence. This means that experts will no longer just have to trust the results of the AI, but receive information about the cause of the problem.“
Why Berlin?
„For more than 80 years, Procter & Gamble's Gillette plant has been producing with state-of-the-art technology. Here over 800 employees produce razor blades and razor heads for the whole world. "Made in Berlin" is not only a seal of quality for shaving heads, but above all for efficient production with high-tech from Berlin. Berlin's startup ecosystem offers the leading expertise and technology to continuously develop our location and to continue to produce innovations with the highest precision in the future.“
Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Berlin GmbH
Many large companies have their digital units in Berlin. The Werner-von-Siemens Centre is an industrial and scientific campus in Berlin's future-oriented area of Siemensstadt. Körber Digital increases efficiency in production with the help of artificial intelligence. The Henkel dx Berlin Hub creates leading technology solutions and supports innovative business models.
I4.0 users based in the capital region include the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg and Mercedes Benz.
Practical research and networking
Private and public initiatives connect established companies, the start-up scene, and research working on the topic of Industry 4.0 in Berlin:
- The Berlin Center for Digital Transformation of the four Berlin Fraunhofer Institutes provides an ecosystem that can rapidly turn research results into innovative products.
- The Digital Agentur supports SMEs in their digital transformation.
- The Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Berlin is the central point of contact for all questions relating to digitization in business practice.
- With the Berlin IoT Hub, a workshop of knowledge transfer and promotion between innovative start-ups and established companies has been created.
- The Industry 4.0 Competence Atlas provides transparent assistance in the search for the right regional technology providers and Industry 4.0 experts.
Research environment
- Berlin Center for Digital Transformation
www.digitale-vernetzung.org - Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK)
www.ipk.fraunhofer.de/industrie-40 - HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences
www.htw-berlin.de - Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
www.bam.de - Berliner Hochschule für Technik
www.bht-berlin.de (in German only) - Technical University of Berlin
www.tu-berlin.de - Berlin School of Economics and Law
www.hwr-berlin.de
Selection of company builders, incubators, accelerators, and labs
Motion Lab Berlin
Motion Lab Berlin combines Berlin's largest machine park for prototyping with co-working and community. With access to 3D printers, CNC milling machines and lasers, Hardtech ideas are given the ideal environment for successful implementation.
Factory Berlin
Factory Berlin is the strongest network for innovations in Europe. By networking startups and partners from different industries, new ideas and solutions for the existing challenges of the future are constantly emerging.
Merantix
Merantix sees itself as the first venture studio for artificial intelligence and has opened the AI Campus in Berlin. In the co-working and community room, artificial intelligence is worked on together with external companies, investors and many more. The team is made up of more than 130 members with over 30 different nationalities.
IoT + Network
The international innovation hub for digital business transformation and the Internet of Things connects companies, startups and research, invests in technology companies and promotes potential.
Bosch IoT
More than 300 employees are hard at work on Bosch' campus in Berlin-Tempelhof, mainly on projects related to the Internet of Things and the digital transformation. The experts advise and support customers in the development and implementation of projects for networked solutions.
Next Big Thing
Next Big Thing AG (NBT) is Europe's leading incubator and operational VC. It supports projects related to the Internet of Things and Services (IoT) as well as those related to smart contracts and blockchain applications. As a company builder, NBT operates in an ever-expanding ecosystem of corporates, founders, technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers.
wattx
WATTx is a venture builder focused on shaping new and rapidly developing industries.
hub:raum
hub:raum is Deutsche Telekom's technology incubator. By bringing together start-ups and the strength of Deutsche Telekom, hub:raum promotes the transfer of innovation and creates business opportunities for both sides.
atomleap
Atomleap GmbH is a company that uses artificial intelligence to identify global technology and market trends and supports start-ups working on the Internet of Things.