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At the Rexel Campus, training center of Rexel Germany, the coffee break becomes an IoT experience: A smart coffee machine from Pepperl+Fuchs and Neoception demonstrates in a vivid way what is possible with innovative sensor technology and intelligent IoT solutions and makes Industry 4.0 tangible.

Human language thrives on overtones and interpretation, ambiguity and pointedness, imagery and playfulness. Therein lies its charm, that is what makes it so appealing. But when machine talks to machine and software system talks to software system, misunderstandings and semantic discrepancies are not charming and exhilarating, but rather business obstacles and cost drivers. With “eCl@ss”, a standard has been established that provides a remedy here – and at the same time represents an important enabler for Industry 4.0.

Pepperl+Fuchs is going full speed ahead in the field of Industry 4.0. In 2017, the start-up Neoception was founded. Since then, Dr. Jörg Nagel and his team have been working on the development of new business models around the topic of “Industrial Internet of Things” and are available to customers in an advisory capacity. What Neoception can and wants, Jörg reports in the interview…