DIGITALISATION: A digital factory floor plan seen at Stuttgart University, part of the Arena 2036 university-backed research project focusing on the digitalisation of the car industry. Dust, oil and sawdust used to be part of daily life for employees at German machine tool maker and laser technology specialist Trumpf. Not anymore. At the company’s Stuttgart factory, a large metal plate glides across the floor in a self-driving pallet, as if led by an invisible hand. The halls are large, bright and noticeably clean – the human workers don’t need to haul around sheets of metal or work heavy levers, […]
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