Up until now, sheet metal fabrication processes have often been carried out using isolated solutions that are not networked. Employees have to coordinate the individual stations. This tedious work creates no added value and has had an increasingly negative impact on productivity in the Industrial 4.0 era, which demands more flexibility and speed than ever before. Therefore, the automation of sheet metal fabrication is essential. Just as important: The digitalization and networking of machines and systems to create greater operating transparency and to reveal optimization potentials.