TY - JOUR AU - Gentner, Stephan PY - 2016/09/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Industry 4.0: Reality, Future or just Science Fiction? How to Convince Today's Management to Invest in Tomorrow's Future! Successful Strategies for Industry 4.0 and Manufacturing IT JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 70 IS - 9 SE - Scientific Articles DO - 10.2533/chimia.2016.628 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2016_628 SP - 628 AB - Manufacturing IT and Industry 4.0 is the Fourth Industrial Revolution with a potential of 12 bn Euros in Germany's chemicals industry. But Switzerland is currently the best prepared of all countries in Europe. Many of the ideas are still very vague. This article discusses how to identify what is already reality, which ideas might become reality in the future and which ideas will stay science fiction. As projects in Manufacturing IT and Industry 4.0 are different from classical technical projects other strategies, for example agile project management, are necessary to secure success. ER -