October 2024 Lighthouses: 22 new sites, including Siemens Erlangen

2024-10-08 · Publisher : World Economic Forum / Siemens · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

The World Economic Forum adds 22 sites to its Global Lighthouse Network, now 172 strong. Siemens' electronics factory in Erlangen joins with productivity up 69% and energy consumption down 42%.

### Background On 8 October 2024, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced a new cohort of its **Global Lighthouse Network**, the club of factories recognised for deploying Industry 4.0 technologies at scale. Siemens brought in its Erlangen electronics factory, named a "Digital Lighthouse". ### Key features - **22 new sites**: 19 Fourth Industrial Revolution Lighthouses and 3 Sustainability Lighthouses across 10 countries (including Switzerland and Vietnam for the first time). - Network expanded to **172 sites** (factories and value chains). - **Siemens Erlangen**: productivity **+69%**, energy consumption **−42%**, over 100 AI use cases, digital twins and robotics; semiconductor clean room built in 11 months. - Siemens' third Lighthouse after Amberg and Chengdu. ### Why it matters Lighthouses act as a practical benchmark: they show which use cases really scale (predictive maintenance, vision-based quality control, line digital twins, energy management). For an automation or manufacturing engineering team, they provide quantified references to build a roadmap and convince plant management. ### Key takeaway Erlangen illustrates the winning Industry 4.0 combination: AI, digital twin and robotics deployed together, with measured gains in productivity and energy.

Tags : Lighthouse, IA, Jumeau numérique, Allemagne, Productivité