SAP Director Cautions Against Split on Industrial Internet: HB
SAP management board member Bernd Leukert said in a Handelsblatt interview boundaries between U.S. and European approaches to connecting industrial machinery to the internet would have “grave consequences” for software products.
- Says there are “some signals” from the U.S. administration of desire to distance itself from European efforts to network industrial equipment
- “We don’t want to found an exclusive club in Germany and target a growing European network”
- Says strives for internationally valid standards
- NOTE: Leukert heads Germany’s Plattform Industrie 4.0 consortium, a lobby group aiming to develop the country’s international position in industrial manufacturing