This years Strategy Panel will once again focus on a topic that will greatly inspire and develop the brake industry in the coming years. Data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning is providing many new methods that are being used in more and more areas of the brake industry. These methods will have a significant impact not only in research and development, but also in production and manufacturing and, last but not least, in the field monitoring of brake systems.

Terrabytes of unstructured and structured data are produced every day in these fields, which is characterized by the term big data.  Data science offers the great opportunity to generate added value from precisely these data. Machine learning and artificial intelligence methods make it possible to formulate correlations from the data faster and more precisely and even to recognize new models and structures, generate models of complex systems from them and thus also develop efficient and more market-oriented products and processes. Jan Münchhoff and Georg Ostermeyer want to discuss with protagonists what real opportunities are already arising today, what successes have already been achieved and where possible limits or even risks can be identified.