Tag Industry 4.0

Sustainability and productivity needn’t be at odds when enabled by Industry 4.0 technology categories. And with an empowered workforce leading the way, outsize gains can be the result. 

Industry 4.0 technology categories have helped boost operations’ productivity and efficiency. This increased operational performance to support the growth without the need to add more resources or machines that consume more energy. Ninety percent of greenhouse-gas emissions come from electricity. So more than 1,000 Industrial IoT sensors is deployed to more than 500 pieces of equipment and 15 utility systems to gather data and generate analytics insights. This allows us to optimize energy consumption across the entire factory. This is how Industry 4.0 technology categories accelerate digital sustainability. Thus, Digitalization is the key that can unlock net-zero for industry.

The Industry 4.0 is moving the production towards smart production systems, based on new technologies (i.e. Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence). Companies rightfully have high expectations of Industry 4.0. However, one of the major obstacles is how to transform reactive, via proactive, to predictive production systems via data analytics application. The predictive production systems are new type of intelligent production systems enable the implementation of new technologies. 

Today, the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) leads to the generation and collection of large amounts of raw data, which represents the undiscovered source of information. The demand of the industry sectors for the constant improvement of production systems leads to the expectation that processing such data, using the advanced analytics method and technique, will have a major impact on the implementation of Industry 4.0 in the future. 

With the technological development of advanced technologies and the use of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected devices is increasing in manufacturing processes. As devices become more and more incorporated using more processing power, the big data is generated. However, increasing the generation of big data leads to problems related to processing and analysis.

The Industry 4.0 is now underway, changing traditional manufacturing into smart manufacturing and creating new opportunities, where machines learn to understand those processes, interact with environment and intelligently adapt their behaviour. Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) make machines in industrial production smarter than before addressing the question of how to build computers that improve automatically through experience. Machine learning (ML), as a subfield of AI, has become the main driver of those innovations in industrial sectors, which provides the opportunity to further accelerate discovery processes as well as enhancing decision making.

The fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, has tendency to push the boundaries of science and technology. This is especially true for the manufacturing industry. One of the biggest challenges facing the manufacturing industry today is how to make intelligent systems for production with “self-aware”, “self-predict and “self-maintain” abilities. Predictive manufacturing systems (PMS) are new intelligent systems that provide these abilities in the production, processes and machines.