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nel campo delle tecnologie di sicurezza
per il licenziamento del software.
Oltre confine
Industry 4.0 is the name of a new paradigm
of industrial production in which the
means of production are fully automated,
interconnected and controlled by a computer
system capable of making making decisions
independently. Thanks IoT, the various
machinery or factory systems communicate
with each other and with their human
operators in real time. The idea is to have
intelligent, fast and very flexible factories
that can respond to market needs. For
example, the factories of the same supply
chain can be networked and automatically
adapt to the demands that come from
within the chain itself, whether increasing
or decreasing production, or modifying
and even customizing the products - all
of it freed up from issues of economies of
scale in a highly efficient just-in-time logic.
The industrial world must faced these new
possibilities now, and will have to do so
increasingly in the future. At stake is the
competitiveness of manufacturers and of
entire industrial systems. We do not yet have
any manufacturing plant that has been
fully converted to this model of automatic
production involving multiple suppliers in a
personalized process driven by the customer.
However, there is a growing number of
individual and collective projects that
surely favor the testing and optimization
of the theoretical model. The digitization of
industrial production opens new scenarios in
terms of organization and the relationships
between the various steps along the supply
chain, and between distribution and
production. At the same time, it raises several
legal, insurance and security questions.
We spoke about the latter with Oliver
Winzenried, CEO and founder of Wibu-
System, an international company in the field
of security technologies for software licensing.
Industry 4.0: making
it safe
- osserva Oliver Winzenried -. Tuttavia si
moltiplicano progetti individuali o com-
partecipati, che sicuramente favoriscono
una sperimentazione e un’ottimizza-
zione del modello teorico”. Germania
e Italia, per l’amministratore delegato,
hanno entrambe una forte propensione
verso l’industria dell’automazione e sono
pertanto ottimi candidati per una rapida
migrazione all’Industria 4.0. “Le iniziative
europee sostengono entrambi gli Stati e
il mercato unico darà ulteriore impulso,
ridefinendo concetti economici e giuri-
dici ormai non più adatti all’attuale fase
tecnologica. Per quanto la Germania sia
stata portabandiera dell’Industria 4.0,
la posizione dell’Italia è favorita da una
classe imprenditoriale dinamica e da un’i-
struzione avanzata, che ben si sposano
con i cambiamenti strutturali in atto - ri-
prende -. Va inoltre rilevato che, mentre
in Europa ci si interroga su tutti i possibili
risvolti e si cerca di addivenire a soluzio-
ni morbide, gli Stati Uniti hanno messo il
piede sull’ac
Superare le resistenze
Oliver Winzenried,
amministratore dele-
gato e fondatore di
Wibu-Systems.