BMW has been at the forefront of Industry 4.0 for years. For example, the company was an early adopter of additive manufacturing, and today prints hundreds of thousands of production parts annually.
In my first job after I received my engineering degree, I was designing hardware and writing software for embedded products for industrial applications. I had a simulator for the microcontroller.
DETROIT—Chrysler workers are using tools normally found at film animation studios—such as 3D videos and computerized motion sensors—to reshape the way they assemble a car or build an engine.
