Industry 4.0 & Digital Transformation Enthusiast | Business Strategist | Avid Storyteller | Tech Geek | Public Speaker

My passion is helping manufacturers digitally transform in innovative ways through Industry 4.0 technologies.  Doing so requires a unique ability to bridge the gap between business strategy, industry trends, technology implementation, and change management.  

I enjoy building collaborative relationships with clients, partners, coworkers, and industry evangelists to help empower manufacturers to achieve more.  

I am very active within the industry as a thought leader to help inspire companies, professionals, and students to be excited about the future created by the fourth industrial revolution.  I write, speak, and share content on LinkedIn to foster a conversational environment and build meaningful connections. 

Where do I spend my time?
• Driving customer success through deep industry and technical expertise
• Developing senior-level industry and client relationships
• Defining and shaping business and go-to-market strategies
• Acting as a company ambassador, technology evangelist, and industry influencer
• Challenging the status quo and continually driving innovation
• Developing & implementing sales enablement strategies
• Finding innovative ways to leverage new technology to provide unique value
• Building, mentoring, and inspiring high-power teams

Jeff Winter

It snowed today in Chicago! And snow is a great way to see progress in action.

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝟏.𝟎 & 𝟐.𝟎 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐬
Snow removal started as pure manual labor. When it snowed, you grabbed a shovel and went to work. It was slow, physical, and unavoidable. The major breakthrough between Industry 1.0 and 2.0? Getting your kids to help. Same tools, slightly more labor, and a lot more bargaining. 🤣 

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝟑.𝟎 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐫𝐚
Mechanization changed the game. Snow blowers replaced brute force with power. What once took hours could be done in minutes. Humans still operated the system, but machines delivered speed, consistency, and efficiency.

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝟒.𝟎 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐫𝐚
Today, snow removal can be fully automated. Autonomous machines use sensors, software, and algorithms to clear driveways with precision, often without anyone watching. No frostbitten fingers or early mornings required, just a cozy cup of coffee as the job gets done.

This isn’t really a story about snow.

It’s a story about how work evolves. Manual effort becomes mechanized. Mechanized work becomes automated. And automation shifts humans away from execution and toward higher-value activities.

The snow hasn’t changed.
Our response to it has.
That’s progress.

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Jeff Winter 

Industry 4.0 isn’t a light switch. It’s a dimmer dial, and most of us are still fumbling for the right setting.

Too many manufacturers see Industry 4.0 as a massive leap they’re either “doing” or not. That kind of thinking leads to analysis paralysis. Or worse… nothing at all.

That’s why I created the 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝟒.𝟎 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬.
Not as a maturity model. 
Not as a framework, but as a way to break the journey into tangible, bite-sized initiatives. Each with its own value, technical requirements, and business implications.
 
Yes, they generally build on each other.
No, you don’t have to follow them in order.
And no, they’re not exhaustive.

The point? You don’t need to transform everything all at once. Start somewhere. Learn fast. Advance with purpose.
 
Because every baby step you take gets you closer to your vision of Industry 4.0.
 
𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝟓,𝟒𝟎𝟎+ 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥? 😀 👇 
https://lnkd.in/exdQ7W2z

Originally written June 2025, updated January 2nd, 2026 (Version 2.1)

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Industry 3.0 to 4.0 in Baby Steps v2.1

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Technology is exciting – but only if people see it 👀
A lot of cool engineering projects often stays behind closed doors.

I help technical companies get their stories seen – by sharing valuable content with my LinkedIn network of over 85,000 followers.

Whether it’s product innovation, behind-the-scenes insights, or smart thoughts about the future of industry:
If your content brings value, I’m happy to share it.

🔹 My focus: Making technical topics more accessible and helping companies gain attention, relevance, and reach – especially on LinkedIn, where decision-makers and talents are watching.

🔹 My background: 10 years+ in international sales & Business Development, working at the intersection of industry, innovation, and smart business models. 

🔹 More than 2 years+ LinkedIn experience in Online-Marketing, sharing tech. stories and organic growth to over 85k+ followers and appx. 20 Mio. Impressions/year.

🔹 My mindset: Your Innovation, My Audience.

Got something worth sharing?

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Constantin Weiss

Educational Engineering⁉️

Learning an planning with animated applications allows engineers to create test runs.

Not only in mechanisms that are seen below, but also for test runs in any application, even robotics movement to avoid ❌ any interfering contacts.

It seems sometimes simple, but until we get the best solution that works ✅ there is more try and error than we sometimes think.

Which one is your favorite? 💭 

Vide seen at Nathan George  
Dmitri Luhmirins  Florian Palatini  Felipe Ochoa Cornejo 👨🏻‍🏫🇨🇱

Industrial Poka-Yoke⁉️

Enhancing efficiency via smart visualization in production. 

❌ no more wrong assembly ❌

✅ visual management to guide workers to reduces errors

✅ enhancing efficiency and quality

✅ user-friendly process

Thoughts?💭 

Via Florian Palatini  
Credits ANDERSON LAMIM JR 
Eduardo BANZATO Amir Sanatkar Renato Almeida

Product placement meets arts⁉️

When KUKA robots take a dance for prosucts presentation to promote it’s individuality.

Tasks like, welding, assembly over packaging, they consistently improve efficiency and productivity. 

Thoughts?💭 

Via Industrial Robot News  
Lukas M. Ziegler  Peter Wirth  Florian Palatini

Slow-Motion Art meets physics⁉️

A Chinese artist who creats slow-motion splashing water over to breaking glass and turns it into educational arts.

Creating not only great pictures and forms, it shows how objects react by influence which technology and innovations can adapt.

Via Instagram „artistuniversum“
Felipe Ochoa Cornejo 👨🏻‍🏫🇨🇱  Ulrich M.  Ambreen Nadeem

Tire Production⁉️when bicycles get their final piece, an important one. 

What‘s your guess in lifespan?

✅ pressing, cutting, stretching and again. Forming the structure of different tire treads for the best performance on road, gravel or trails.

Did you see the wire at the beginning? Differences between foldable and non-foldable tires?

Via Amir Sanatkar  
Florian Palatini  Peter Wirth  Lukas M. Ziegler

Test it before you invest in it⁉️when quality males the difference of product popularity, by Dyson  

Quality isn‘t an add-on, it‘s a well thought through process of perfection and experience in engineering design.

✅ Vacuum's battery = tested through 1,200 cycles of charge and discharge. 

✅ Hair dryer's cable = wrapped and unwrapped 7800 times. 

✅ Straightener's plates = opened and closed 400,00 times

What does it take that quality is ensured at all times, besides keeping employees motivated❓

Via Florian Palatini  
Credits Michal Ukropec  
Peter Wirth  Milos Kucera  Robert Smak

Product handling automation⁉️

Robotics handling heavy bags and emptying them. When labor shortages and high demand coming together robotics can overtake repetitive and hard physical jobs.

✅ improving efficiency
✅ ensuring safety
✅ minimizing dust exposure

Via Interesting Engineering and Florian Palatini  
Peter Wirth  Lukas M. Ziegler  Robert 지영 Liebhart

Safety 4.0 or standard⁉️

Smart lights 💡 for improved safety👍to avoid accidents.

Illuminated signals indicate who‘s turn it is to pass🚶‍♂️visual management coupled with intelligent assistant systems👌

Via  Florian Palatini   
By Progtech s.r.l. & Paolo Cassina 

Renato Almeida Eduardo BANZATO Peter Wirth

Interactive RL policy patching for real-world-robotics⁉️When efficiency meets smart robotics, by Sereact & Ralf Gulde  

Cortex 1.5 that trains robots even better in real situation, those who haven’t been seen before 

👉 Instead of retraining everything from scratch, the control policy is patched in a targeted way.

👉 Human-in-the-loop + reinforcement learning enable fast adaptation to real-world challenges.

👉 Improvements can be shared and transferred across multiple robots.


✅ trained inside unseen situations with human interaction ❌ no need to train completely new.

✅ (RL) Reinforcement Learning, adjust the policy (control strategy) in a targeted manner 🎯

✅ Quick adaptation without completely new training where robotics learn and need less data. 

Human interaction when robots make a mistake, where this correction will be used as reward-signal to improve policy

🔌 all robots profit from one correction when in same network.

❌ Classic training methods are non flexible and more expensive 

✔️ Policy Patching stands for quick corrections without transporting big amounts of data. 

By Sereact & Ralf Gulde  

Florian Palatini  Lukas M. Ziegler  Eduardo BANZATO Robert 지영 Liebhart

Nature and engineering⁉️

Learning and inspired by nature when it comes to bionics, by Festo  

Creating mechanical animals inspired by reality. From ants, butterfly’s or birds over kangaroos and fish, seemingly no limits.

Thoughts?💭 

Via Lukas M. Ziegler  
Florian Palatini  Peter Wirth  Marcin Gwóźdź

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