What is I4.0 NOT A ready to use standard product What is I4.0 Combination of industrial technologies with information technologies, generating a business enhancement. A guaranteed success It is an industrial revolution, but also an organizational / human revolution A unique solution Humans are principal actors for Industry 4.0 and their main tools are data Forced automation It is the vision of the Factory of the Future and the mission of the modernization of existing facilities Table 2: What is I4.0 and what is I4.0 NOT (Korner) One of the key learnings from what I4.0 is, is the emphasis on human participation, both as “principal actors” and the subjects of the revolution the I4.0 implies. This human-centric vision of I4.0 was a common concept constantly highlighted by other speakers and panellists along the Symposium. The second key learning is that I4.0 is about connectivity. This goes beyond data collection or digitalization, as described by Korner, connectivity is the main I4.0 feature (see figure 1). Hence, I4.0 is about interconnected processes. Otherwise, it could be a conventional process or a digitalised process, but not I4.0. Figure 1: I4.0 & connectivity (Korner) I4.0 requires interconnected processes, not only within the organisation, but also outside the organisation (e.g. with suppliers and clients). It is about “working together” by sharing data and information. 3 steps for implementing I4.0 (connecting / visualisation, regulation & automatic control) Korner proposes three steps or implementation phases for I4.0: 1. Step 1: connection / visualisation, 2. Step 2: regulation 3. Step 3: automatic control The reason for proposing these steps is that “we cannot go from 1 to 100 in one step”. 6