Prof. dr. Niko Herakovic is currently a professor and a head of chair of Manufacturing Technologies and systems as well as a Head of the Laboratory LASIM, University of Ljubljana. In recent years, he has been working on several basic and applied research and industrial projects related to Smart Factories, Industry 4.0, Production systems, computer vision, fluid power and mechatronics. Dr. Herakovic received his bachelor and master’s degree at the University of Ljubljana in 1988 and in 1991, respectively, as well as his Ph.D. degree at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1995.