It can be described by the following description. Connect all kinds of equipment in the factory together, lay down the nervous system, absorb all information in real time, realize the visualization of factory activities, that is, make all activities transparent and visible.

​Artificial intelligence (AI) can help shops reduce preventative maintenance costs and increase production and efficiency gains.

​A packaging supplier applies Industry 4.0 technology to its injection molds so that components talk to each another to understand the dynamics of what is happening inside the mold.

Increasing cost pressures and fiercer competition are driving toolmakers to embrace new concepts such as Tooling 4.0 and to industrialize their operations to reduce idle and lead times by limiting the number of variations in tool components and processes. To apply Tooling 4.0 to future projects, Scholle IPN, for example, made its team and several high-quality tool builders’ as strategic partners.​