Achema is the world forum for chemical engineering and the process industry offering once in three years to more than 150,000 participants an innovation platform, technology summit and international networking. We were delighted to be invited to contribute to the seminar on the topic "Scale up of continuous production processes of antibodies, application fields of data analysis, their use in process modeling and generation of algorithms for the Machine learning " together with the host Lewa as well as ChromaCon and Rockwell Automation.

We were impressed to see the broad scope of the exhibited technologies and the important role of digitalization, advanced quantitative tools and automation. Our industry is ready to approach and master the challenges towards industry 4.0.