The 7 big challenges for the German mechanical engineering industry

The medium-sized German mechanical engineering sector appears to be struggling – even before the pandemic. The reason: Due to the good order situation in the past decade, many important trends were noted but not implemented. And so today there is a lack of know-how at the same time as increasing price pressure. In cooperation with Professor Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza, Head of the Production Systems Department at the wbk Institute of Production Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), we describe the most important trends in industry from today's perspective – and show what machine builders must do now to make up for strategic deficits.