Fraunhofer IEM contributes its longstanding expertise in the assistance of small- to medium-sized enterprises within the competence center “Digital in NRW – Kompetenz für den Mittelstand" The experts from Digital in NRW developed around 21 free and highly practical formats to make digitization in small-to medium-sized enterprises (SME) tangible and comprehensible and to make shared solutions available. This allows companies to familiarize themselves with industry 4.0, regardless of which level of digitization their products and processes have currently achieved.