Benefit from Industry 4.0 advantages with membership of LNI 4.0
Advantages of membership
Testing innovations
Industry 4.0 opens up great opportunities for companies. Safe and resource-saving neutral testing options for innovations are already available to help you position yourself in global competition.
Entry into Industry 4.0
As a platform for dialog, expertise and experimentation, we make it easier for you to get started with Industry 4.0 in practice.
No financial risks
You can get to know technologies, innovations and business models relating to Industry 4.0 in a pre-competitive (neutral) way, try them out and check their feasibility before launching them on the market.
Competent advice
Use a selected network of test centers! We will find you a suitable test center and give you access to the network of experts.
International environment
We support activities in the national and international environment via networked demonstrators. Set impulses for standardization with us!
Steps to membership

Types of membership
Full member
Support of the association's tasks and their implementation through voting and participation rights through the membership fee, through active cooperation, contributions in kind, donations, voluntary contributions, donations and representation of the association in the outside world.
Visibility and impact of association members in the external space and network of LNI 4.0
Any natural or legal person or partnership with legal capacity can become a full or ordinary member.
Membership rights are inalienable and non-transferable.
Annual fee graduated according to number of employees and annual turnover
Admission fee is 1/5 of the annual membership fee
Supporting member
Advisory support of the association's tasks, but no voting rights like full members.
Participation in implementation - as a benefit for the free supporting membership, the supporting member contributes individual benefits in kind, which are described in the respective supporting membership application.
The funding period is limited to 2 years.
For the duration of the sponsorship, the admission fee and membership fee are waived.
The sponsoring membership rights are inalienable and non-transferable.
After the end of the sponsorship period, there is the option of joining as a full member or leaving without any legal entitlement to benefits in kind.