Course details:

Dennis Kolberg

Dr.-Ing. Dennis Kolberg, Chief Product Manager at DIGIMONDO, one of the leading German IoT-startups.

Short intro to the vision of I4.0

What is the initial idea of I4.0? What is different to today’s way of manufacturing?
What are the market’s requirements towards production? Why is I4.0 relevant today (and not yesterday or tomorrow)?

Factory Automation

What is the basic architecture in automation?
What are core components (e.g. PLC, sensor, actuator)?
How do they interact with each other (e.g. protocols like ProfiNet)?
What is changing in automation with I4.0 (e.g. new protocols like OPC UA)

Dennis Kolberg

Dr.-Ing. Dennis Kolberg, Chief Product Manager at DIGIMONDO, one of the leading German IoT-startups.

To make machines communicate with each other, it's critical to implement sensors and the Internet of Things. Dennis Kolberg leads one of the hottest German IoT startups, DIGIMONDO. He will talk about process automation, and will actually show you how to create a smart autonomous factory.

Besides, he is guest lecturer for digitalization in production at the NORDAKADEMIE in Hamburg. He holds a doctoral degree in factory automation which he accomplished at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), one of the birthplaces of Industry 4.0. During that time, he was head of research in the department of factory innovation and at the SmartFactory KL. As Senior Manager for Industry 4.0 in a consultancy he could successfully support various companies in automotive, medical and food industries to introduce IoT and Industry 4.0. Other than that, he was former CTO and co-founder of a software-startup for digitizing master data management in production.