Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | innovation | trends of technology | The cloud-based predictive maintenance solution MAX is gradually finding its way into the daily work of our service technicians. Worldwide, 10 percent of the elevators we service are already connected to the MAX platform – soon it’ll be the turn of the first escalators.

Corporate culture | Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | innovation | trends of technology | 18,631 kilometers lie between Christchurch in New Zealand and Essen. A trip takes at least 27 hours. It is time-consuming and certainly not always comfortable. But for „BeyondConventions“ the start-up Orbica has set off. And in the end, it wasn't just worth it for the young company.

Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | Engineering | innovation | mobility of the future | With a third high-rise test tower, thyssenkrupp is expanding its global innovation network. We spoke to Elevator CEO Andreas Schierenbeck about the iconic project and the importance of innovation in the elevator industry.

Corporate culture | Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | innovation | Almost 70 inventors and programmers. An entire day in front of the laptops. With one task: to master the challenges at thyssenkrupp’s Hackathon #hack4tk.

Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | future of production | In production work in the future, employees will obtain additional information from data glasses – for instance, through the videobased knowledge database tech tube, which thyssenkrupp is currently testing.

Corporate culture | Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | future of production | innovation | Knowledge is now more widely distributed, and innovation is happening more often in small companies. For the visionary Henry Chesbrough, this means the future clearly belongs to open innovation.