Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | future of production | innovation | trends of technology | The market for private and semi-professional 3D printers is booming. Now, the new revolutionary processes are also conquering industrial production, under the term "Additive Manufacturing". But what is essential when printing highly sensitive components for industrial machines – instead of action figures? We asked someone who knows: Andreas Stapelmann, Head of the thyssenkrupp TechCenter Additive Manufacturing in Mülheim, Germany.

energy concepts | future of production | Smart factory | Sustainability and climate protection | In the Chinese city of Zhongshan, thyssenkrupp has built an elevator plant that takes eco-friendly production to a whole new level – with wind-powered lighting thrown in.

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.

future of production | More than 500 robots manufacture the body shell of the smart fortwo. Uwe Kasper and Michael Schumacher, together with their project team, got the entire process rolling – and thanks to great teamwork, in record time too.

future of production | At Ilsenburg , the physical world of things is fused with data networks to form a cyber-physical system.