Industry 4.0 plan, Italy, France and Germany strengthen the cooperation for Industry 4.0

The meeting of the Trilateral Cooperation Committee of Italy, France and Germany took place on 18 January in Paris to promote the digitization of the manufacturing industry and to strengthen the strong link between the three countries in the context of Industry 4.0.

The initiative was born with the aim of developing a coordination between the respective national plans, such as Industry 4.0 Plan, Alliance Industrie du Futur and Plattform Inustrie 4.0.

The Committee has launched a shared document on the standardization of the administrative core (a common language for expressing functions in new industrial products) and on issues related to the ownership of industrial data.

This document could be presented at the Paris Forum to be held in March or the Hannover Fair scheduled for April.

The European Commission was invited to share progress on the Digitizing European Industry (DEI) initiative and to take note of the steps taken by the Trilateral Cooperation Committee, given the convergence of the issues dealt with and pursued by the two initiatives.

25 January 2018

Source Ministry of Economic Development