Companies, industrial and information technology service providers as well as the FIR at the RWTH Aachen are cooperating to implement the so called enterprise integration center (EICe), the infrastructure for the future project “industry 4.0” of the German government. There are three innovation labs and a demonstration factory ready for use, so research at a productive factory with actual production data becomes reality. With this infrastructure the EICe will approach the future of industrial research.
