Digital-Gipfel in Dortmund: Festo unterstützt GAIA-X
At the Digital Summit on 28 and 29 October, the GAIA-X project for setting up a networked, open data infrastructure as the "cradle of an open, digital AI ecosystem" was presented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Festo supports the development of such a data infrastructure for Europe.
“Digital trust is the basic requirement for new data-based solutions and digital business models. That's why we need a trustworthy and secure but also powerful data infrastructure in Europe,” says Dr Frank Melzer, Member of the Management Board for Product and Technology Management at Festo. As current head of the steering committee for the “Plattform Industrie 4.0”, Frank Melzer was one of the initiators of the GAIA-X project. Festo will be particularly involved in the validation and practical testing of various use cases. “For our customers – and thus also for us – security and trust are the conditions for the successful implementation of new business models with the transparent use of a wide variety of data in a well-integrated ecosystem. It is a central concern of ours that the data is not only secure, but that the new digital infrastructure is also based on international openness and partnership,” says Frank Melzer.
Under the chairmanship of Frank Melzer, a holistic mission statement 2030 for industry 4.0 entitled “Shaping Digital Ecosystems Globally” was drawn up and presented to the public. The three “fundamental European” values of sovereignty, interoperability and sustainability are central anchor points of the mission statement. Based on this mission statement, the platform developed a ten-point plan in which the GAIA-X project is also anchored. Further focus projects are the broad application of the reference architecture Industry 4.0 with the so-called administration shell or the elaboration of good practices and action contributions for a climate-neutral production.
Festo aims to be the innovation leader and thus also the preferred automation partner for its customers worldwide. The focus is on the further development of decentralized, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence (AI) that require a secure data infrastructure. Festo therefore purchased the AI specialist Resolto in April 2018. “The topic of analytics and artificial intelligence will have an enormous impact on our product portfolio, for example by enabling AI algorithms to be integrated both in the cloud and directly in Festo components,” says Frank Melzer.
About the “Plattform Industrie 4.0”
The “Plattform Industrie 4.0” is the central network in Germany for advancing digital transformation in production. More than 350 actors from over 150 organisations are actively involved in the platform, working shoulder to shoulder between politics, business, science, trade unions and associations. As one of the largest international and national networks, the platform supports German companies in implementing industry 4.0, for example by making existing industry 4.0 practical examples known to companies and spreading them across the country. In addition, it provides important impulses with concrete recommendations for action and refers to support offers and test environments. The numerous international cooperations of the platform underline its strong role in the international discussions around the topic Industry 4.0.
费斯托 (Festo)是一家全球性的独立的家族企业，总部位于德国埃斯林根。自成立以来，Festo在工业自动化技术和技术教育方面制定标准，从而为环境、经济和社会的可持续发展做出贡献。公司为超过35个行业的30万家工厂和过程自动化客户提供气动和电驱动自动化技术解决方案，其中生命科学和实验室自动化业务受到越来越多的关注。Festo产品和服务遍布176个国家。2022年，费斯托在全球61个国家的250多个分支机构拥有约20800名员工，实现销售额38.1亿欧元。每年约7%的销售额用于研发。在这家学习型企业，1.5%的销售额用于基础和进一步培训。Festo 教学培训 (Didactic SE) 是全球领先的技术教育和培训供应商，为全球客户提供工业环境中全面的数字化和常规学习解决方案。
