Production Technology and DX: Solutions from RWTH Aachen University - New Approaches and Opportunities for German Japanese Business Cooperation

NRW.Global Business Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the Trade and Investment Agency of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, presents the Fireplace WebTalk “Production Technology and DX: Solutions from RWTH Aachen University - New Approaches and Opportunities for German Japanese Business Cooperation”. Come, explore, and discuss the opportunities of the digital transformation in industry.

Digital transformation (DX) in industry has made big progress through Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Japan’s Society 5.0 as well as other such initiatives. New digital technologies, built on greatly improved hardware and software, make interconnection, information transparency, inter-connectivity, technical assistance, and decentralized decisions possible, leading to major changes to how our industrial production system and business models work.

RWTH Aachen University, Germany’s leading technical university based in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, is at the forefront of shaping the digital transformation in industry, cooperating closely with industrial partners from all over the world, educating Germany’s brightest engineers and enabling startup entrepreneurs in creating value through innovation and business models making best use of state-of-the-art production and digital technologies.

We invite you to meet and explore digital transformation opportunities and challenges with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Gries, Director, RWTH Aachen Institute of Textile Technology, Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Martin Plutz, Managing Director, oculavis GmbH, Aachen, Mr. Arash Rezaey, Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Textil Vernetzt (SME 4.0 Competence Center Networked Textiles) and other panelists from Germany and Japan.

Language

English/Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)

Registration

Participation is free of charge. Please register latest by 29th November (Mon.) 24.00 (JST) / 16.00 (CET) via https://events.nrwglobalbusiness.com/en/nrw-global-business-japan-event-20211202/registration/.