Are visitors to a bearing manufacturing facility in Hoechstadt, Germany, getting an early glimpse of what Industry 4.0 looks like? That's the hope of Schaeffler Group, which owns the facility. The plant houses a machine tool meant to show how digitalization works—not in a laboratory, but in an actual manufacturing environment.
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Originally published on CTE: 2016-01-15
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/machine-tool-industry-40/
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