Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Detlef Zühlke leads research at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His work focuses on Industrie 4.0 , Smart Manufacturing , and Business Model Innovation , particularly through the development of the SmartFactoryKL demonstrator. Research interests include: Networked production systems Human-robot collaboration Flexible manufacturing architectures Mobile industrial device interfaces Current projects involve: Generic device identification systems Task-based communication for multi-user environments Business model transformations in production technology








