DATA-DRIVEN SMART FACTORY SOLUTIONS FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

摘要

Most manufacturing companies are constantly balancing the desire to improve production against the return on the investment required to achieve that improvement. Industry 4.0 is a current hot topic and it comes with the promise of facilitating great improvements for manufacturers. As with many emerging technologies, there is a shortage of expertise and experience in the fields of Industry 4.0, IoT and smart manufacturing. Most companies have the skills to install sensors and use the outputs to trigger the next step in production. Many also have the ability to collect all the data from all the sensors and store it for later use. Very few companies have either the expertise to effectively analyse the data and produce useful results or the experience to know what can be realistically achieved from the results.