WOOD INDUSTRY 4.0: THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
We are just at the beginning of this revolution. So once change gains traction with at least one company, the rules of the game could change very quickly.
Ligna 2015 in Hannover, Germany is coming up in May and many of us will be visiting this most important equipment tradeshow for the woodworking industry. There is a new buzz going around in the European manufacturing industry; not just the woodworking industry.
The term Industry 4.0 was used for the first time at the Hannover Messe show in 2011 and originates from the high-tech strategy of the German government which promotes computerization, to a much larger scale than is currently used, in the manufacturing industry.