ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO . KG
digitalising our supply chain . Because we are living in a global world , our customers use systems that we have to connect to ours .
Buchwald concludes : “ With the successful LEAN transformation we reduced and mastered complexity but , more importantly , we laid the base for the Internet of Things . We established the ability to change and increase our resource efficiency and can bring concepts like collaborative robotics , digital operation with big data in production , and new business models for maintenance via life cycle monitoring into real life .
“ Having revolutionised a major portion of its business and supported the changes with the LEAN philosophy , Rohde & Schwarz is now poised to dominate its space with the possibilities of the Internet of Things ”
72 April 2016