And it provided new jobs and tech cell factories in coal mining. Soon after homes were lit up with light bulbs, instead of candles, electricity set off the 2nd Industrial Revolution. In the 19 seventys, computers catapulted us into yet a new era, allowing humans to forge closer networks and to rely increasingly on machines for productivity. Today were more connected than ever Intelligent Machines can work autonomy as we opening infiniti stores where becoming more efficient, more precise, and more sustainable. But more than that, in a bit muddy xena, welcome to made the ws business magazine. And heres whats coming up. A vehicle boom and the us is a doable without china decoupling around the globe. Whats it all about . And bikes, and then across cities, how to lessen the load, or whether in china, the us or germany, all businesses of the 4th Industrial Revolution speak one of the same language, digital data. Its a language that delivers big results with minimal effort and shoot productivity with little electricity offers an eloquent answer to problems like labor shortages and energy crises. One of the revolutions, most modern factories, is located in the german state of hassle. And it speaks digitalization fluently. To look into the future climate neutral production, electricity generated from renewable sources will replace fossil fuels, which are also needed to power cars and produce heat so much more as needed. What does that mean for industry . Does to be we have to reduce energy use and have some risk. In short, manufacturing must become more Energy Efficient and stay competitive, but how visitors tour every day. This plant in western germany is one of the most modern in europe, products unimpressive fund, indispensable distribution boxes, home to power cables. 5 can distribution boxes are a home for automation solutions. Every 2nd, the nation has seen holland awesome data centers. Automotive factories, bakeries, railways, distribution boxes can be found everywhere. Not even windmill solar panels or charging stations for cars will work without them. This plant in the state of has it produces up to a 1000 in a single day with fewer than 300 employees. Whats unique about this plan is that it can create those mass produced items in large amounts, as well as the customized products fulsome and large amounts. This requires automation and digitalization. Ultimately, we did both computers give commands to the robots, and they respond information from their sensors. This collected for processing devices report their status as well as energy usage. Almost in real time. The software was developed by a different unit i was one of your most modern factories were always customers 0, the 1st customer. And whenever this technology works, our Software Company can instead of dig, certainly to our customers. Why all the efforts . Because manufacturers have to change the use over 40 percent of the electricity in germany, and its become more expensive buttons the last 18 months have told us that we have to look at the cost of energy with very different options than we used to. One spot guns and the side significant not the size in the future will no longer be able to manage our plants according to paces old prices. But rather, according to energy availability, or according to the price of energy at certain times, 44 feet above the key and give you some insight, find some smart factories, or suppose to help save energy. Accompany is training technicians from International Locations today. And i talked, its expanding, especially in china, of the us and mexico does. Its almost like were explaining how the machines work to be able to support customers and offer service for anyone in mexico who buys this equipment. And in that, click on brand misapplyment. Its a huge variety of between the Automation Company is solar gas. And anybody using electric goals to tongue, which is owned by the fleet, held little group, has 3000000000 euros, an annual sales, and wants to keep growing. And the double digits part by expanding smart factories of all of the Production Equipment transmits information into the corporate cloud. Creating a digital twin of the plant output and energy use can then be improved. But that requires investment. This smart factory, a low cost about 250000000 euro is not surprisingly smart. Factories only use the newest state of the art machinery to produce more sustainably. Old models are discarded quickly. They are no longer usable and turn into junk, where the 90 percent of all materials on this planet are never repurposed. They only have one life. Thats the opposite of sustainable family business, and jeremy wants to change that. Its cranking up circularity in the industrial sector. The environmental disasters exacerbated by climate change, the same time environmental consciousness is on the rise, including in companys disposing of industrial machinery and equipment, consumes large amount of resources and pollutes the ecosystem. Yeah, im sorry about that. We sometimes have liquids in the machines, such as acids or chemicals, they also have to be reprocessed properly. And then of course the materials such as metal would plastic or whatever is in there. That of course, leaves a footprint and it doesnt break down so quickly by itself is all on wednesday. Let me see if maybe donald is there a solution, a new use for the old machines . The company dig a mine has been involved in the repair on modernization of industrial machinery facility is the and then thats all the circular economy for us. It doesnt start with a product that comes out of the machine, but with the machine itself, its part of a cycle leap. This is our but we also modernize use machines, what any of our customers give them to us, or we buy them. And then theyre repaired or modernized, when done, they are making them a safer. Well, thats more Energy Efficient than batteries. Energy. If its sent home to shut off, some of the machines are up to 80 years old. Meanwhile, the company has switched its focus to robot processing machines, but has one clear advantage. Thats one of the great thing about processing rubber or last numbers in general, is that the process hasnt changed in almost a 100 years. Sort of mechanical processes are still the same, isnt nothing. Thats why these machines lend themselves to being upgraded with new technology, it opens fund detection to capacity in about new types of water system of when a machine arrives, theres always a surprise. It might be if its only when we take it apart, that we can see its true condition, and all that needs to be done to make it work again only and will stomach to desktops or stiffness. Not every machine can be fixed. Thats why the company also builds new ones which can be fixed on the ice quickly and easily. An advantage when resource gas supplies on certain, these benefits, both customer and environment. Im a few mean Mechanical Engineering is in fact a bellwether for many other industries. It exerts a major influence across Industries Via and it consequently influences that sustainability and the environment to dig. A ma is one of the few machine manufacturers in germany that are focused on the secular economy and of fully in line with the concept the, like the circular economy, electric vehicles are also pillar of the sustainability revolution. At least in china, it sold 6000000 in these last year. Thats 80 percent more than the Previous Year in the us. On the other hand, the road is a large bump here. Trucks and pick ups still dominate top seller list there. But thats meant to change. Now the Us Government is investing big. It wants to bring more electric vehicles onto american streets. And it plans on doing it without any chinese producers. But is that possible . An electric car revolution shaped by traits, engines, the us losing ground to china and the global easy race to catch up. Its pouring money into the car industry, but only parts close as trading partners. Now the best chance to clean up us auto emissions hinges on carmakers building new local supply chains quickly. And we begin here in spartanburg, South Carolina since the early 19 ninetys home to the largest us Production Facility for german car maker bmw. It turns out some 1500. 00 cars daily and that in the middle of a transformation, a 1000000000. 00 expansion is preparing the factory for new electric vehicle. Assembly lines bmw, you wants half, its car sales to be electric by 2030. Its just one of many carmakers announcing Big Investments across north america for gm, toyota and honda have all pledge, billions of dollars on new battery production across the us and mexico. Meanwhile, volkswagen audi to show and fee on every lease expansion plants to their factories. Tesla. Meanwhile, says its building an entire new facility in mexico. Each of those announcements coming after us President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act in summer 2022. Its the largest climate legislation in us history, offering a staggering 370000000000. 00 and subsidies for renewables, energy grid improvements, and mobility. The transportation is the biggest source of Greenhouse Gases in the us, accounting for almost a 3rd of all emissions. The us transition to electric has slowed. Meanwhile, both china and the you have put more electric cars on their roadways in recent years and it faster rates. The irate now sits and vicious new goals for electric vehicles including that they reach 50 percent market share in the us by 2030. Thats compared to only 8 percent last year. The last central lever is a clean vehicle tax credit of 7500. 00 for buyers of qualifying new electric vehicles. Over the next 10 years. Its a massive incentive for consumers to buy only those cars to meet the requirements and for producers to, to your closely to sourcing goals. For more on that in a moment. For the north american car industry, the credit is a real boost and it comes at a significant moment. Recently, its been Chinese Companies that have shown more tempo in the market. A given that is that signal to the overall e v. Supply chain here. There, there is interest, there is excitement, so interest, excitement that means years as an investment alone in the 1st 3 months of the new law. Carmakers invested in estimated 33000000000. 00 just in the us. Thats according to the center for automotive research. Its investment the built on a well established production chain stretching across north america. The groundwork for which was late some 30 years ago. Thats when the us mexico and canada signed the north American Free trade agreement. The 3 nations believing that lowering trade barriers would create more prosperity for all of them. But opposition to the measure was high. Auto worker unions in particular, were concerned about foreign products creeping into the supply chain and eroding to Domestic Production base. So we push for sourcing rule some 62. 00 and a half percent of the total by the vehicle has to be produced in north america. Nafta essentially created an auto production chain that stretched from one end of the content to the other and turned mexico into one of the worlds automotive heavy weights into something with this machine color. The mexican Automotive Industry is at the same technological level as the international Automotive Industry helped him with the hint. And as soon as they told me, cool, in fact, fixed mexico is the 6th largest automobile producer in the world. I even think what of all, there are 24 plants assembling cars or components for the major automotive brand new mexico. Oh, going into its all of them are preparing in varying degrees to integrate into production of electric cars. What places and making cool in the us is that the bundle . Goodbye your on, on a little bit of to see that by david i see. Id like to send out to movies. It looks like this. So the controversy are now to let the further changes. Meanwhile, us President Donald Trump critical the agreement, renegotiated it in 2020. He raised the local sourcing requirements once again. This time to 75 percent of the cars value. Another challenge for automakers, final assembly of all vehicles must take place in north america or in another free trade partner of the us. And then beginning in 2025. The new law prohibits sourcing components and minerals from china altogether. And thats a problem. China is the world leader and lithium ion battery, manufacturing, accounting for 79 percent of total production capacity. The u. S. Pales in comparison and thats just lithium. Finding alternative sources wont be easy. The us has some critical Mineral Deposits as do free trade partners like canada, australia, and chilly. But experts say most nations are still the early stages of extracting and refining. And its a process, its actually quite dirty and complicated. So were not looking any quick solution for this key element in the oh, the battery process. If we simultaneously insist were not going to do business with china. Companies are dealing with more than just sourcing problems, retraining entire workforces and finding new workers while still meeting irie timeline is going to be difficult. At the bmw plan, spartanburg training is a central part of the transition to electric. Last year the car maker opened a 20000000. 00 facility for hands on courses and robotics, and electrification the switch from internal combustion engines to electric drive isnt a small change experts say touching virtually every aspect of the vehicle and production the vehicle is designed differently, its built differently, all the things about how the vehicle is, is, is built all the way through the process, even handling the different components, what require it is in order to handle them. So we also have training for our logistics colleagues for everybody that touches a piece of the car that could be impacted by the change from an internal combustion to high voltage all the way through to the operation of the vehicle, the testing of the vehicle from japan, to india in the us, getting workers like these ready in time is a massive challenge for car makers. The new push by washington is simply good business, north america, a good investment. But its also an example of how the political priorities in one country can conflict with broader climate goals or anchoring supply chains inside National Borders or as close to those borders as possible. Thats whats really behind the Inflation Reduction Act in the us. But its not just there and the Global Economy so called the coupling has become almost as common a term as digitalization. So we took a closer look what is the coupling . The coupling a separating breaking off or dividing the coupling something that have been closely bound now so upon as for example, well economically intertwined states or blocks brushes, invasion of ukraine has that to the complete hold of russian gas deliveries to germany. A substitute to be found quickly, many countries now and to prepare and protect themselves before the next crisis producing and trading more locally and becoming independent of Global Supply chains. The us been trying to see couple from china for a while. Its been making it hard for chinese funds such as hawaii to gain access to the us market. And its set up a Huge Investment program for domestic industry in the struggle for global dominance. America is also totally on europe to de couple from china. Europeans are cautious because breakups always costs money and breaking up fast costs even more. Want to study forecasts, the full percent decline in german gross domestic product, where its a d couple of from china immediately. Economists say ending globalization could jeopardize prosperity and growth in europe. Thats why germany and friends hesitant to de couple from china. Instead, they want to the risk, which means finding the products and role materials their economies are especially dependent upon. And then quickly finding use offices and other countries on investing the previous partnerships would still remain the risking reduces pitfalls by creating back ups. After all, the coupling and tightly isnt possible in a globalized well without question. We need more electric vehicles for the energy transition, but in cities, most people dont really need cars at all. Bikes are much more sustainable. Thats why across europe, more and more cities are clearing a path for bicycles. Barcelona, its blocking off cars from entire quarter is every 3rd street in the spanish city. Its meant to be soley for bikes. But theres one big drawback to bikes, compared to cars. When you have a lot to transport, the going gets tough. Thats why it started from hamburg is now literally taking the load of bikers. Oh no, no, no, im fine. My name is bar hot. Im, im conduct girlfriend. Im a co founder and managing director of new v and the based in hamburg, germany. And we provide a sustainable transport solution for the urban environment shopping. The, the idea was that the empowered People Living in an environment to move a lot of rate without using their cars. The way these came about the funding, this is by this bicycle, electric lease, howard bicycle, the electric power bank, trailer sensors out the front of the vehicle is moving. Its going to move either someone or closer to by hand, or its connected to a bicycle, but its either standard headboard electron hardman, hey, you electrically powered it, and then the train it is ready to go here. This is our search and Development Workshop by law section and will mechanics. You can jump into the 1st section is for mechanical issues, because then we have your tools and machines are essential mechanical operations um to up and toyota k of some assemblies with him one quick testing to be test subassemblies for trailers and validate them. Um, for example, yeah, would it be, for example, if you were testing rakes with a single getting loads, you just see if theres any failure sites and skip boss was michael filiette out there hanging out the, the both the night i came here driving it to study were both on people of color. We speak german, but were, were not race and grew up in germany. We take it father as an advantage because on this give us the possibility to be role models for august, for students to come to German Society and to realize that they can pursue all the career opportunities. So not only the work and the company, but also create their own company and culture. Diversity for us is extremely important. Typically, this is a pop part of our culture. News that has so to, to me, please come to Different Countries. And we do believe that the diverse, more diverse will all of the strong do we have because we have the input from employees coming from many Different Countries from the u. S. From sweden, from germany, from pakistan, from india, from denmark, from hungry and so on. To Work Together on the vision to how for to change as it is and to make the more green, sustainable, and efficient the tomato. Most of our clients are Logistics Companies for the time being nice. I q we work with i get in germany and to p. S. At the same time, were in operation all over europe. Go to play golf product good and how much our biggest buyer is belgium post, which uses the trailers for post and partial Delivery Service or possibly delivery. Can you use good things . The i 1st came to me in 2008 to 7 masters. I was selected in estimates more in this space masters program, many, many, many, and say, excited city. I studied for one year in germany and then completed the rest of my studies in sweden, in france. Before heading back to pakistan on many want the fmi sector. I worked there in the small and Medium Sized Enterprises sector in germany again and 2 of us and then return to germany again back in 2015. I was very clear to after i came back to germany, it was clear that i had to do Something Different and i wanted to start my own business, or i wanted to start something on my own or a i used to tell him here too. Okay. And then even fairly bo dot by you said to him, its okay, even if you fail, you have nothing to lose. Im cutting people since i was already working in germany, taking a risk as a family founding a stone. So it was significantly easier to manage. I supported him in a way that even if we failed off to try and for 2 years, as many startups failed, we would still take dr. Assisting. Sucks in the home school. Pay me except assessment shouldnt go to your specifications. All the adults are successfully bibiana years at the start with challenging and stressful for the family challenges you would have had a lot of stress to, to work and, and technical challenges to them that things became most streamlined to this time of booking. You know, it has more time for his family. I would say the to me can do in germany. Entrepreneurship is relatively easy and you can get help from institutions that have been around for a long time. And a lot of funding is available to get your start up up and running to get us started up and drive. Another positive aspect of doing business in germany, theres that the universities are also very supportive here. Its a significant advantage. If youre creating the tech start up, you can always go to the universe and even got linked up there and take a lot of resources. The you come up with a good idea of it, just if it is not cable, we just send label which has the potential to be beneficial for someone and then you to start working on that. So i would only suggest to, to actually go ahead and start doing your own thing. How can life become easier and more sustainable . How can we develop faster and be great in or the 4th Industrial Revolution is a large part of the answer. And thats our show for today. Thank you for watching. Take care of you to the cradle of an ancient civilization. As youve never seen it before. From above, we fly you over eat on and uncover in valuable cultural treasures. A dream tour on a low altitude flight 8 on from above or in 15 minutes dw clinic on rail. A train of hope for almost 30 years. This mobile hospital has travelled up and down south africa delivering medical care to rural areas that he did most global minutes on dw the daniels in june. 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