iStock.com/LeonidKos In 1886, the world’s first functional automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, was unveiled. The two-seater with three wire-spoked wheels was engineered with a light chassis and a maximum speed of about 16km/h.
About 25 Patent-Motorwagen vehicles were built between 1886 and 1893, requiring critical human skills and intensive manual labor to manufacture. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen was ahead of its time and marked the beginning of a revolution that would radically transform manufacturing across industries.
This metamorphosis has led to the current era of Industry 4.0 – or digital transformation of manufacturing – in which the integration of intelligent machines, real-time workflows […]
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