Digital technologies have profoundly changed the ways we do business, buy, work and live. They have even altered society and continue impacting virtually all business functions and industries. It’s ...

The next challenge for Industry 4.0 is scaling up. Yet, many organizations struggle to scale, with the convergence of IT and OT (operational technology) and skills/capabilities/talent being two major ...

Back in 2011 Gartner advised (IT) leaders to prepare for the transition of their organizations to the converging, aligning and integrating of IT and OT environments. In fact it’s one of the essences ...

Where is wearable technology heading and what can we expect from the wearables market? End 2015, IDC expected that the main drivers of the market would be the newer generations of smarter wearable ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is increasingly used in the automotive industry. Why and how BMW Group uses 3D-printed components and intends to increase its use of AM. In the automotive industry, new ...

Artificial intelligence consistently gets placed at the top in the trend forecasts regarding technologies enabling the next stages of digital transformation and a more data- and AI-driven Industry 4.0 ...

The technologies that are typically associated with Industry 4.0 and digital transformation in manufacturing probably need no more introduction: cloud computing, (big) data, the Internet of Things, ...

Despite geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties, the projected global technology and IT spending for 2025 shows an acceleration compared to 2024. The digital economy will also continue to grow ...

Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the world of artificial intelligence has never been the same. By July 2025, more than 700 million people, about 10% of the adult world population, used ...

Most CEOs see the benefits of incorporating AI into their organization’s activities, but knowledge/skills gaps and several other factors hinder decisions and AI adoption – can they be overcome? AI ...

Agentic AI ranks high on the list of evolutions in artificial intelligence. Enabling systems to make (semi-)autonomous decisions and take action without direct human input, agentic AI is seen as a key ...

The Building Management System (BMS system) and the practice of building automation in the age of IP, IoT (Internet of Things), big data, advanced analytics and hyper-connectivity. An intelligent and ...