“Industrie 2025” is an initiative to anchor the vision of industry 4.0 in Swiss small and medium enterprises. The working group “Thinking in Digital Business Models” focuses on digital business models and develops pragmatic methods for their implementation. IPG Group is proudly an active partner in this working group.

Serbia has already put strong public focus on Industry 4.0 but has to come up with a comprehensive initiative plan and activity list for its widespread implementation in the short term since the lag is significant. Although, as a late comer, Serbia can learn from success cases and best practice examples of other economies, that already implemented digitalization initiatives. But - Serbia should not copy these cases, but learn and seek for its own path.

Serbia has already put strong public focus on Industry 4.0 but has to come up with a comprehensive initiative plan and activity list for its widespread implementation in the short term since the lag is significant. Although, as a late comer, Serbia can learn from success cases and best practice examples of other economies, that already implemented digitalization initiatives. But - Serbia should not copy these cases, but learn and seek for its own path.

Consider these recommended actions when executing your Digital Transformation initiatives in 2019. Coming from an experienced CIO, these are generic and applicable in any industry.

"Leaders of digital transformation should realign priorities, dive into artificial intelligence and automation and find sustainable ways to engage the workforce.... In this post, I’d like to share some recommendations on things to do next year to maximize your chance of hitting your transformational goals."

In his whitepaper, Miguel Arjona (Altran Group) describes the virtual factory as an inevitable result of the increasing trend to digitalization of production. He sees the requirement of “new forms of interaction between men and machines”, where Augmented / Virtual Reality is the key technology for an enriched physical production environment. According to Miguel, interaction with virtual objects is another field of development to complement sensors and actuator in the Internet of Things.

Kopaonik Business Forum is committed to improving the performance of Serbian economy through analytical contributions and dialogue between major relevant stakeholders. It is a high profile event organized under the conceptual patronage of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. It is no accident that the Forum has been receiving a growing number of requests for attendance from around the region. In the last couple of years, the Forum has gathered on average more than a thousand participants, including heads of state and government, ministers, high representatives of regulatory bodies, representatives of international financial institutions, respectable scholars, diplomats, business practitioners, and media.

In the context of Industrie 4.0 for some time now, the recognition is aware that – in addition to a technologically driven bottom-up approach – one must complement the topic of digitization in manufacturing industries also by a top-down driven approach. In such a top-down approach the starting point are possible future business scenarios, from which more technically use case descriptions are derived. These use cases are the basis to derive new products, solutions, and services well as standardization requirements.

Generate competitiveness and customer benefit with the help of digitization!

On Tuesday, November the 6. 2018. the second Logistics Forum Switzerland took place in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne. More than 120 participants gathered to discuss the current topic of "Digital Value Chains" - added value through digitalization in value chains.

Carsten Vollrath, CEO of Swiss IPG Partners Group, reveals which challenges does digital transformation bring, how close Serbia is and how to catch up with developed economies.

IPG GROUP actively contributed in showing benefits and importance of Industry 4.0 initiatives by demonstrating best practice examples and success cases from German speaking area.