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  • Fraunhofer report highlights key areas of industrial value creation systems from the perspective of the German manufacturing industry / 2025

    The future of industrial value creation: Comprehensive recycling of resources, customer-centric ecosystems, autonomous technologies, and a central role for humans

    Press release / September 03, 2025

    Highly complex, dynamic, and interconnected: Industrial value creation systems are facing profound change shaped by technological innovations, geopolitical shifts, and societal and sustainability expectations. But what does this mean for the industry of tomorrow? Together with twelve companies from the manufacturing industry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO designed an industrial value creation system of the future in a future workshop. The results have now been published in the report “The Future of Industrial Value Creation Systems – The Perspective of German Industrial Companies.”

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  • Under the motto “Germany Digital. Innovative. Sovereign. International.”, this year's Digital Summit of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport will take place in Frankfurt am Main on October 21 and 22. More than 1,500 participants from politics, business, science and civil society will be discussing the digital challenges of our time. Fraunhofer ISST will also be there, organizing and moderating a panel on the challenges and solutions for successful cross-border data exchange.

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