#Industry 4.0

The power of data
Digital
The power of data
From storage space in data centers to artificial intelligence: More and more products are being offered as cloud services. Data-as-a-Service is not widely known yet although it’s already shortening the downtimes of entire industrial systems.
December 2023
Graphics instead of numbers
Digital
Graphics instead of numbers
The need for software keeps growing in line with digitalization. What’s been lacking so far is a simple way in which even employees with no IT experience can write the applications they need for their work. Low Code is designed to close that gap.
November 2023
Directly to your door!
Engineering
Directly to your door!
Billions of letters and parcels are sent every year. To do this, the deliverers rely on state-of-the-art machines and digital technologies. A look into the gears of global logistics chains.
November 2021
Steel with a shade of green
Engineering
Steel with a shade of green
A modern world without steel is hardly conceivable – but steel without CO2 emissions is. These are the technologies to achieve change.
September 2021
High tech in the fields
Engineering
High tech in the fields
Farming feeds the world – and requires increasingly better and, above all, more efficient machines to do so.
September 2021
Fully connected
Digital
Fully connected
8,000 times faster than 5G: From 2030 on, the 6G network is supposed to push open the gates to a new communications universe.
September 2021
Quantum leap in the web
Digital
Quantum leap in the web
A network of quantum computers would be epochally more powerful and absolutely secure.
September 2021
For a better India
Engineering
For a better India
On a fast track to becoming an economic superpower: with agile thinking and advanced technology, India might be ranking among the world’s top three economies by 2030.
April 2021
Goodbye to errors
Engineering
Goodbye to errors
Downtimes are poison for business. The best strategy to prevent this is a smart early warning system. It’s called condition monitoring.
October 2020
A win-win situation
Engineering
A win-win situation
When business and science successfully work together, hands-on knowledge from the industrial world is combined with academic findings. But how do such university-business partnerships succeed?
October 2020
The end of the cage age
Engineering
The end of the cage age
Cobots, the smaller siblings of gross-motor industrial robots, are making a name for themselves. The specialists at Schaeffler have found a way to make them perform faster and with greater precision.
October 2020
The enablers
Engineering
The enablers
Schaeffler’s success story is closely linked to its own production landscapes. Without the equipment from its in-house mechanical engineering department, Schaeffler’s plants would stop operating.
December 2019
Neo jobs in the world of tomorrow
Future Life
Neo jobs in the world of tomorrow
Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and robotics will dramatically change our world this century. Some jobs will disappear while others will emerge. This is what such neo jobs might look like.
December 2019
A late but powerful revolution
Digital
A late but powerful revolution
First described over 35 years ago, 3D printing is a step-by-step game changer in manufacturing technology. Schaeffler knows what kinds of things already work with additive technology today.
December 2018