The history of industrial production has been shaped by on-going
evolutionary changes. Following the discovery of steam engines in the 1800s,
mass production began 100 years later, and the invention of the computer in the
1970s ushered in the Industry 3.0 era. In the intervening years, computers have
become established in all areas of daily life. With the subsequent development
of the Internet and cloud technology, the current Industry 4.0 era has come
into being. What changes does the latest stage of human development bring for
warp knitting? Ulrike Schlenker from KARL MAYER’s Corporate Communication
department asked Christof Naier, President of the KARL MAYER Group’s
Warp Knitting Business Unit, about this.
