For Saint-Gobain “Industry 4.0” is far more than a marketing-effective buzzword. Rather, the company already incorporated a roadmap for its subsidiary Saint-Gobain Sekurit, comprehensively addressing five important strategic fields as smart data, smart automation, information technology, people involvement & connected operator, as well as customer benefit. This roadmap enables the step-wise implementation of successive measures, starting from the “Proof-of-Concept” up to the full integration into the production environment within the next few years. At the end of an extensive 5-year plan, the achievement of superior goals is intended, such as “AI in Production”, “Closed-Loop Engineering”, “Immersive Experience” or the automated and flexible production of small batch-sizes while achieving a high degree of product variance at the same time.
