The Increasing digitization forces companies to deal with their opportunities and challenges. The study underlying this article identifies the economic potential of technological trends and provides an inventory of the current situation in Industry 4.0. To this end, a total of 106 industrial companies have made a self-assessment of their current maturity levels of various technologies in their company and their current and future economic significance. This results in valuable insights for companies in the manufacturing industry, so that they can better deal with the range of different approaches and concepts.
