Industry 4.0 in metallurgy

Industry 4.0 offers many chances but brings juridical problems. First, there exists the problem of data protection. Since the General Data Protection Regulation has come into force in May 2018 companies are confronted with a new issue: How to protect employees who work with data? Another problem is not solved completely: How to protect companies against cyber attacks? How can data interchanges be handled? How can conflicts with applicable law be avoided? Second there follow challenges from Industry 4.0 concerning the competition law: Corporate employees and represantatives of companies who operate within the same sector take part in the same conferences and often have a professional exchange about specific challenges of their branch. Sometimes these exchanges lead to further business cooperations. Do there arise legal consequences from these cooperations as challenges relating to competitive law? A question of competitive law is also whether there is a right to use the platform or cloud of another strong enterprise. Third: To which company do data belong? What about the relevance of developments of new production methods? How can an enterprise avoid the loss of ownership of data? All these questions will be answered by taking the specific challenges of the Metallurgy into consideration. © 2019 GDMB Gesellschaft fur Bergbau, Metallurgie, Rohstoff- und Umwelttechnik e.V.. All rights reserved.