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Industry 4 News & Insights
You Can’t Save What You Haven’t Measured
If reducing the energy consumption of your machines is a priority, the first step you need to take is to measure the current performance of your machine to identify the areas where energy consumption…
BPX helps college future proof training for Industry 4.0
Smart manufacturing is on the increase, and with this comes the demand for engineers able to use the technology installed. Plant engineers need the skills and training to work with robotics, automation controls, networking…
Edge, Fog & Cloud Computing Clarified
The digitisation of manufacturing will have a huge impact on organisational growth and profitability in ways not yet clear. More data offers a better understanding about production process and gives…
Edge Data brings Flexible Control to Manufacturers
The evolution of manufacturing to the smart factory, means factories filled with sensors collecting data for optimising performance. These cyber-physical systems mean that rather than relying on a single machine, businesses now have networks…
Data as a Currency: Expect New Business Models to Grow
For many years business models in automation have been very similar. However, their foundation is based on assumptions that IIot will probably make invalid. Schneider Electric sees that with the digitisation of plants…
Manufacturing Lighthouses Show Industry the Way
Manufacturers have tried for years to develop a computer network standard for interconnecting devices from various manufacturers (remember MAP?). Now things are different: IoT is providing the underlying platform. Markedly, equipment and device makers…
Manufacturing Automation: Key to Improved Efficiency & Performance
When thinking about advanced factory automation the first places that come to mind are invariably car plants. Images are of robot assembly lines, relatively few people and widespread use of AGVs. However, achieving this…
Towards Utopian Factories with Immersive Technologies
If you are in manufacturing, you know change is heading your way: or at least the possibility of change. Perhaps visions of factories populated by autonomous vehicles delivering parts and sub-assemblies across the shop…
Industry 4 -automated heaven or an engineers’ hell?
Whether Industry 4 represents automated heaven or an engineers’ hell rather depends on your viewpoint. From a management perspective, the challenge for manufacturers is knowing how best to improve productivity. This is important for…
