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About Stefan Zimmermann


Head of Center Of Expertise Industrie 4.0

Stefan Zimmermann is responsible for the Global Center of Excellence Industry 4.0, which drives Atos’ global Industry 4.0 portfolio and strategy. His team aims at helping industrial companies to identify business opportunities enabled by Industry 4.0 during their digital transformation process, in particular embracing the Industry 4.0 framework.

Stefan has a very strong industrial background, having worked for companies like Siemens and Rheinmetall Group and also comprehensive consulting skills gained when working for Roland Berger & Partner.




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Articles posted by Stefan Zimmermann

Industry 4.0 – how plant/asset virtualization will change asset planning and optimization

Digitization helps companies to boost their operational excellence in manufacturing. It will enable improvements in areas that may have been neglected in the past, or not in scope for optimization due to a lack of enabling technology. Plant (asset) planning has been such an area leaving industries without spatial layouts and optimal…

Digital maintenance solutions taken to the next level: Hannover Messe 2018

After sales services and solutions are gaining importance within Industry 4.0. It’s all very well having smart products but what do you do if they need urgent maintenance work and you cannot deploy experts who can fix them because your customer is in a remote location? For manufacturers, defense organizations or Energy &…

Industry 4.0 – 3D Printing in Manufacturing Industries

3D printing is one of the potential game changers that could completely disrupt the manufacturing value chain, allowing a shift from mass production to full customization, from centralized to distributed production. In the future 3D printing technologies will provide an alternative to “conventional” manufacturing technologies in many situations. It will deeply impact the way products are manufactured, delivered…

Industry 4.0 – The Future of Additive Manufacturing

Additive (Manufacturing) technology offers the ability to produce personalized products with lower development costs, shorter lead times, less energy consumed during manufacturing and less material waste. It can be used to manufacture complex parts, and enables manufacturers to reduce inventory, make products on-demand, create smaller localized manufacturing environments, and even reduce supply chains. This quite impressive “performance record”…

Industry 4.0 and open innovation

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is probably the most disruptive concept for most Industries. I4.0 enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) allows for the integration of people, applications and assets within a company. It also fosters the integration of a company with its wider ecosystem, potentially consisting of subcontractors, customers, suppliers and R&D partners. Major trends that encourage I4.0 are shorter product and…

Industry 4.0 – Legal challenges and methods to overcome them

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is probably the most disruptive concept for most industries, affecting not only revenue and cost structures but also shaking up the core business and operating models. One aspect that is often neglected, but will have a major impact on the success of I4.0, are legal issues and how they will affect digital…

Industry 4.0 – How to master challenges to exploit new business opportunities

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is probably the most disruptive concept for most industries, affecting not only revenue and cost structures but also shaking up the core business and operating models. Therefore, there is widespread awareness of what it means among the executives of manufacturing companies. According to a Forrester/Russel Reynolds Survey1) 74% of…

Why Aligning Operational Technology and IT is inevitable

In its recent research paper Ascent Journey 2016, the Atos Scientific community considers the manifold challenges that the established leading industrial companies are facing nowadays, stemming from the globalization of markets and therefore the advent of new competitors mainly from emerging economies such as China. Since most of these companies are competing on price but also more and…

Reducing Time to Market

As decision makers in the industry, you are faced with manifold challenges induced by the globalization of markets and, therefore, the advent of new competitors catching up in large steps with the established manufacturers in the market. This implies pressure on your production costs fighting against low-cost competition. It also requires a higher degree of flexibility in production (produce anywhere) and last but not…