Common standards to lift tech ties with Germany By MA SI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-29 08:57 Share CLOSE Clas Neumann, senior vice-president of SAP and head of Global SAP Labs Network. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
More efforts are needed to find common technical standards for Industry 4.0, so as to further the cooperation between China and Germany on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to upgrade manufacturing, a renowned German expert said.
Industry 4.0 is roughly defined as the transformation of industrial manufacturing and production systems by introducing new technologies.
Clas Neumann, senior vice-president of German software and cloud service giant SAP, said: We need standards for data transmission, and for data between machines and software. Only with common technical standards, we can easily apply innovations from Germany to China and the other way around.
More efforts are needed to find common technical standards for Industry 4.0, so as to further the cooperation between China and Germany on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to upgrade manufacturing, a renowned German expert said.