surfaces and other capabilities that were not associated with Schae ler in the past From data to ndings Initially there s a technical reason why Schae ler has been dealing so intensively with digitization for nearly two years now The automotive and manufactur ing industry supplier is in a key position Rolling bear ings the company s core product are found wherever mechanical components are in rotary motion in other words revolving around their own axes This refers to ma chines of all kinds for instance in drive systems ranging from e bikes to ship engines the size of a detached sin gle family home The rotational speeds temperatures or vibrations that can be measured in a bearing not only FREEDOM Oil pressure temperature and torque in a machine drive individual raw machine data unlike engi neering design information for example does not qualify for patent or other intellectual property protection either by the manufacturer or the oper ator of a system At least this is the current state of legislation in Europe which however is intensive ly being discussed at the moment This does not mean though that everyone can access this data for instance in the machine tool 4 0 or data gener ated as part of a remote maintenance job explains Schae ler s Legal Counsel Dr Ulrich Keil For one manufacturers and operators of smart machines typically enter into agreements with detailed provi sions on data usage The agreement may even stip ulate the location where data is physically stored For the other even machine data is subject to all the rules provided for by law for instance for the protection of business secrets or against spying out of data In addition processed and systemat ically stored data as a whole may represent a pro tected database comparable to an events calendar compiled from third party data Whenever we de velop new privacy protected business models we address the legal issues early on says Keil This doesn t always concern the protection of personal data Where machine data provides indirect infor mation about human behavior for instance the driver of a car questions of classic privacy pro tection law are important as well Strategic partnership signed and sealed between Schae ler and IBM From le Gerhard Baum Chief Digital O cer Schae ler AG Ivo Körner VP Enterprise Sales IBM Germany Prof Peter Gutzmer Deputy CEO and Chief Technology O cer Schae ler AG Jürgen Henn Executive Partner IBM Global Business Services and Harald Gießer Chief Information O cer Schae ler AG here and now 65

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