Roland Busch

But if you don't really feel like, if you go for a plumbing job or a handcraft shop, this is the last one to be replaced.

It starts with, and I come to manufacturing in a second, but it starts with the design of your product.

I mean, you create a digital trend of your product, which you simulate how it runs on a manufacturing line.

And this loop of producing and simulators and producing your products, which you have already in the digital world, this is so powerful because whenever you make a change, a component, maybe you want to be more resilient designing another component, you go all the way back to your design drawings, you change it, and you know what your manufacturing is impacted.

That's very powerful.

But let me go for the manufacturing line itself.

The whole idea is that you start building this operating system, which is a layered system.

Obviously, you need to get all the data which a manufacturing line produces.

You have to connect all your machines, the status of your machines.

Enrich them with environmental data as you want to get the real-time data, even the drawing data of your machines as well.

Because once you have that, then you simulate it.

And this is what we call the digital twin composer.

That means you're sucking in different digital twins of machine, of a line, of a product.

You suck it in and then you have a complete comprehensive digital twin, which ingests real-time data.

And then you can really, I mean, you can go forward, backward in time.

You can find out what's the problem.

And then here comes the real one when you close the loop of interesting data but sending data back to the line, which is then the agent which behaves on behalf of you.

And an agent is like a trained supervisor for a line.

So when a red light blinking, a supervisor goes there, he has a look at it, he says, oh yeah, this is a problem.

I know that over and over again, this is what I have to do.