CEO Eberhard Wahl Talks About His Passion for Open Technology Standards at TRUMPF Tracking Technologies

On this episode, Eberhard Wahl, Chief Executive Officer at TRUMPF, joins host Benjamin Brockmann to share some insights on standards in manufacturing automation and the difficult and expensive journey to create standards that are universally accepted.
Eberhard is also CEO of omlox, an open standard owned by a non-profit organization with more than 1,700 members.
Eberhard and Benjamin discuss:- Achieving universal standardization for location tracking services.- The cost of creating an accepted technology standard which is prohibitive for most small European companies.- The vision behind Industry 4.0.- The perceived competitive advantage of having proprietary technology.- The importance of smaller companies combining resources to achieve universally adopted standards.
Eberhard also talks about his passion for the subject and his global effort to change the mindset in the industry.


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Resources:
Omlox - https://omlox.com/homeTRUMPF - https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/Benjamin Brockmann - https://www.linkedin.com/in/be....njamin-brockmann/Ope | Website - https://operations1.com/enOperations1 | Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/compa....ny/operations1/Eberh Wahl - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eberhard-wahl-0636783/


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