A+W Software: When The Glass Talks To The Machine

This article asks: Where can we find Industry 4.0 in glass processing and insulated glass production? What's hiding behind terms such as "smart factory" and the "Internet of things?" Machines communicate with people, with other machines, with work pieces and semi-finished products. According to Dr Klaus Mulhans of A+W Software, "This is easy to imagine for a million identical sheet metal parts, but how is this possible with a million square metres of functional glass in various configurations and dimensions, with various types of processing, that is, one million unique objects?"