Industry 4.0

The fourth industrial revolution brought to light admirable manufacturing practices that have largely been ignored by most industries over the years. One such practice is Lean Manufacturing. In lean manufacturing, manufacturers look to achieve more with less (time and resource wastages.) Lean thinking leads manufacturers to a path where they optimize all their processes and…

Industry 4.0 has been poised by industrial revolutionists and industry experts to yield more customer-focused products and transform the manufacturing and engineering space. Different technological trends behind the emergence of industry 4.0 also facilitate the digital transformation witnessed in specific industries such as health, manufacturing, engineering, etc. Each industry has its key facilitators, though many…

When people hear talk about digital transformation, they imagine that it’s something that can be done overnight by getting new software or getting a new piece of ‘digital equipment’. The true meaning of this term has been lost to overuse and the marketing gimmicks of CIOs selling overnight IT solutions. What is digital transformation? Digital…

The way forward for any forward-thinking manufacturer is to start laying the foundation for the adoption of Industrial IoT and start implementing the concept of the connected machine and leverage the power of IIoT now.

The Digital Twin concept presents a situation where the physical and virtual worlds converge, and every industrial product is given a dynamic digital representation.

The technologies that are driving this new era of transformation range from prototyping and R&D, production and performance of analytics, and robotics to innovations such as virtual reality, IoT, artificial intelligence and cloud computing

The digital twin approach can collect data from sensors and use it in predicting maintenance and optimization even though the physical meters and dials, where manufacturing information has been traditionally gleaned.

The Lean approach is founded on the principle of a thorough evaluation of a manufacturing process to find out the things that are done right and those that need to removed, or adapt all steps within the manufacturing process that are possibly generating waste.

Digital factories are all about digitizing the manufacturing process (and supply chain systems) by employing digital technologies that are behind the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0.

With Industry 4.0, things and processes that were originally managed internally by both machines and people are taken to the cloud making them controllable remotely from any location through the power of cloud computing and IoT.