Petr Kolář is the head of research topics focused on manufacturing machinery and equipment at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and topics related to industrial production and automation (IPA) at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CTU in Prague. He has a lot of experience in implementing applied research projects with Czech and foreign industrial companies. For more than two years he worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer IWU Dresden. His expertise is dynamic behaviour of production machines, smart production machines and practical implementation of Industry 4.0 concept.