Industry 4.0 research advisory board elects Rainer Stark to the team of spokespersons

The Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board has elected Rainer Stark (TU Berlin) as deputy spokesperson for science. Peter Liggesmeyer (Fraunhofer IESE) was confirmed in his role as spokesperson for science, Harald Schöning (Software AG) as spokesperson for industry and Klaus Bauer (TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG) as deputy spokesperson for industry. The spokesperson team was unanimously elected for three years at the last Research Advisory Board meeting on 17 June.

Rainer Stark brings extensive expertise to the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board: his research focuses range from industrial information technology, virtual product development, digital twins, advanced systems engineering (ASE) and artificial intelligence (AI) to data engineering and analytics. Professor Rainer Stark has been head of the Industrial Information Technology department at the Technical University of Berlin since 2008. From 2008 to 2021, he was director of the Virtual Product Creation business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK). Stark is a member of the Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP), a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), an active member of the Product Development and Project Management Advisory Board of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) and a member of the Executive Board for Research at prostep ivip e.V.

Gisela Lanza (wbk Institute for Production Technology at KIT) is leaving the speaker committee at her own request, but will remain a member of the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board. Peter Liggesmeyer (Fraunhofer IESE), speaker for science on the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board, thanks the former deputy scientific speaker for her commitment and valuable input on behalf of all members of the Research Advisory Board.

The current 30 representatives from science and industry are identifying research-based solutions for the further development and implementation of Industrie 4.0. In doing so, they are increasingly focusing on the topics of sustainability, resilience, interoperability, technological sovereignty and the central role of people. The Industrie 4.0 Research Advisory Board, which is coordinated by acatech, advises the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Industrie 4.0 Platform in particular.