Eberhard Wahl is Head of New Business Technology at TRUMPF, Germany and working-group leader use-case for the open locating standard omlox. Wahl has focused on innovations in the area of tension between market-pull and technology-push. He has already successfully accompanied various technology changes and initiated many new products. In the field of networked production solutions, Wahl was an evangelist of the first hour – even before it was called Industry 4.0. He strongly believes that the economically feasible I4.0 solutions will have to be based upon open standards.