"Industrial 4.0" competition is just beginning, and who can laugh at the end, after10 years!

In 2006, the subprime crisis broke out in the United States, and then evolved into the financial crisis and the global economic crisis in 2008.

The results of this crisis is that the financial bust in the United States, a direct result of the two major driving industry, financial industry and information technology missing half his leg.

United States realized that relying solely on financial and Internet industries,it is difficult to promote economic sustainable development, which must find aneconomic setting down roots in industry.

In this context, in 2009, the U.S. government proposed investment, taxation and foreign trade to the manufacturing industry, the re industrialization strategy, intended to revive manufacturing.

The strategic plan America aspiring, put far away from another continent Germany scared into a cold sweat. As the global manufacturing industry's most powerful countries, Germany, of course, can’t be reconciled their traditional advantage industry challenged, more like to be with in the United States trotting behind.

What should I do? Germany has two paths to choose: one is the physical method, namely, in the strengthening of the manufacturing industry and the Internet to make up the short board. Two is the chemical method, namely the combination of the three industries, to promote each other.

German government is very clear, if the use of physical methods, the German victory is not particularly large. The reason is that the world's most innovative financial and information technology professionals gathered in the United States, leaving the tip of the talent to talk about how the Internet and financial innovation?

It is not easy to catch up with the United States, which is not an order of magnitude compared to the United States. As vice president of Deutsche Telekom Leon Berger, if car manufacturers can’t grasp the core data, then Google will become winners, cloud platforms and cloud package community will make factory became the dependency information.

Therefore, only chemical methods have the potential to surpass the United States. In the three big industries, how to better choose the industry which is mutually bonded?

Obviously, the combination of the Internet and finance, the United States has been frustrated, because the Internet has just broken up the financial bubble, Germany did not need to repeat the test of the United states".

While the financial and manufacturing combination, early in the second half of the nineteenth Century to twentieth Century have been everywhere. So, finally, is the best combination of the Internet and advanced manufacturing industry.

Thus, the German version of the industrial 4 thus came into being. This concept was first derived from Hannover Industrial Exposition in 2011.

Subsequently, in the German Academy of engineering, SIEMENS and other academic and industry sectors, the German Federal Ministry of research and the Federal Ministry of economics and technology in 2013 will be "industrial 4" project into the "high tech Strategy 2020" in the ten future projects, plans to invest 200000000 euros, supporting the new generation of industrial revolution technology research and innovation.

Industry 4 of the soul is the Internet as a tool to serve Germany's strong manufacturing industry. Such a wonderful combination of chemical, gave birth to a new material, which is intelligent manufacturing, that is, through the smart factory, intelligent production and intelligent logistics".

The manufacturing industry to upgrade the leaps and bounds, personalized production and efficient mass production, so that consumers and manufacturing them realize seamless link, thus firmly to stick to clients. This fully reflects the German characteristics, but also authentic.

The concept of German industrial 4.0 and putting forward the United States first put forward the "manufacturing return strategy left far behind, it is like a thunder, explosion woke up governments: 4.0 brought on by German industry is the fourth meeting of the industrial revolution.

Thus, the United States government in 2012 to amend the strategy, the official release of the advanced manufacturing national strategic plan, from now on a new round of industrial revolution.

Other countries have followed suit, with their respective characteristics of the "4" plan, such as Japan's "science and technology industry alliance", the United Kingdom's "industrial 2050 strategy" and China's manufacturing 2025 strategy".

Unlike Germany, the American version of the "industrial 4.0" is in the advantage of the Internet industry for manufacturing extension, such as Google Google glasses production, unmanned aerial vehicles; Amazon Kindle electronic reader, are now perfecting multi axis unmanned aircraft for the courier service; Autodesk 3D printing prosthetics; Yilong musk, pure electric vehicle Tesla, recoverable rocket and manufacturing a super cell Apple launched the smart watches.

American industrial 4.0 "strategy is the key to the 6S industrial system, namely space aerospace aviation (Aerospace), semicon ductor (semiconductor), shale gase (shale gas), smart ICT Service (intelligent service value creation economy), Silicon Valley sprit (Silicon Valley as a representative of the spirit of innovation) and sustainable talent pool (sustainable human resources).

The strategy seeks to produce the system's most basic raw materials (energy and materials), the use of industrial products and services (Internet technology and ICT services), as well as continuous innovation driven business model, firmly grasp the value of the industrial value chain, the highest value of several parts, from the source and value of delivery to ensure that their competitiveness advantage.

Although there are America catch up from behind trend, but Germany will ensure that the manufacturing industry developed in the leading position in the future. Followed by subsequent Japan, Britain and China to squeeze into the first phalanx, the key is to play a unique advantage, learn from each other and encourage innovation

"Industry 4" the competition is just beginning, who can laugh at the end, 10 years later!