Caren Dripke is group leader for “industrial control engineering” at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart. After her studies in the fields of engineering cybernetics and mechatronics, she took the position of research assistant at ISW in 2015. Her research interests are control algorithms as well as communication interfaces for industrial controls. Since September 2017, she is the project lead for the VDW-project “connectivity for Industry 4.0” which initiated “umati - Universal Machine Tool Interface“