One man, and so many anniversaries. 120 years ago, Rudolph Diesel began to work on the compression ignition engines, that would soon be named after its creator. The first prototype was completed and passed the first tests during the same year. The first diesel engine factory was established 115 years ago. The engine invented by Diesel was used in ships for the first time 110 years ago, and it has been 90 years since the first diesel-powered truck went on the road. The car MINI was first fitted with a diesel engine ten years ago. Each of these anniversaries is reason enough to commemorate the inventor, who died exactly 100 years ago.

Audi Lucas has taken up the post of Chief Digitization Officer (CDO) at MAN Diesel & Turbo, where he is tasked with maintaining and replacing "analogue" devices with digital ones in MAN Diesel turbines. Before moving to MAN, Lucas was employed at the global consultancy firm Wipro Technologies as Director. "Digitalization is not as much about technology as it is about addressing friction points in the market. Then finding new ways and business opportunities to address those points in a blindingly fast and agile way," says Lucas. MAN Diesel Chairman of the Board Uwe Lauber says: "As a creative mission, digitization goes way beyond the development of technologies," concluding that in Germany, MAN Diesel & Turbo will have an easier development of current diesel engine projects.