Olivier Scalabre
Source: BCG (Boston Consulting Group)
The rise of new digital industrial technology, known as Industry
4.0, is a transformation that makes it possible to gather and analyze data
across machines, enabling faster, more flexible, and more efficient processes
to produce higher-quality goods at reduced costs. This manufacturing revolution
will increase productivity, shift economics, foster industrial growth,
and modify the profile of the workforce—ultimately changing the
competitiveness of companies and regions.
NINE
TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFORMING INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
Advanced digital technology is already used in manufacturing,
but with Industry 4.0, it will transform production. It will lead to greater
efficiencies and change traditional production relationships among suppliers,
producers, and customers—as well as between human and machine. Nine technology
trends form the building blocks of Industry 4.0.
BIG DATA
AND ANALYTICS
In an Industry 4.0 context, the collection and comprehensive
evaluation of data from many different sources—production equipment and systems
as well as enterprise- and customer-management systems—will become standard to
support real-time decision making.
AUTONOMOUS
ROBOTS
Robots will eventually interact with one another and work safely
side by side with humans and learn from them. These robots will cost less
and have a greater range of capabilities than those used in manufacturing today
SIMULATION
Simulations will be used more extensively in plant operations to
leverage real-time data and mirror the physical world in a virtual model, which
can include machines, products, and humans. This will allow operators to test
and optimize the machine settings for the next product in line in the virtual
world before the physical changeover, thereby driving down machine setup times
and increasing quality.
HORIZONTAL
AND VERTICAL SYSTEM INTEGRATION
With Industry 4.0, companies, departments, functions, and
capabilities will become much more cohesive, as cross-company, universal
data-integration networks evolve and enable truly automated value chains.
THE
INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS
Industry 4.0 means that more devices—sometimes including
unfinished products—will be enriched with embedded computing. This will
allow field devices to communicate and interact both with one another and with
more centralized controllers, as necessary. It will also decentralize analytics
and decision making, enabling real-time responses
CYBERSECURITY
With the increased connectivity and use of standard
communications protocols that come with Industry 4.0, the need to protect
critical industrial systems and manufacturing lines
from cybersecurity threats increases dramatically. As a result, secure,
reliable communications as well as sophisticated identity and access management
of machines and users are essential.
THE CLOUD
More production-related undertakings will require increased data
sharing across sites and company boundaries. At the same time, the performance
of cloud technologies will improve, achieving reaction times of just several
milliseconds. As a result, machine data and functionality will increasingly be
deployed to the cloud, enabling more data-driven services for production
systems.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Companies have just begun to adopt additive manufacturing,
such as 3-D printing, which they use mostly to prototype and produce individual
components. With Industry 4.0, these additive-manufacturing methods will be
widely used to produce small batches of customized products that offer
construction advantages, such as complex, lightweight designs.
AUGMENTED
REALITY
Augmented-reality-based systems support a variety of services,
such as selecting parts in a warehouse and sending repair instructions over
mobile devices. These systems are currently in their infancy, but in the
future, companies will make much broader use of augmented reality to provide
workers with real-time information to improve decision making and work
procedures.
Source: bcg.com/capabilities/operations/embracing-industry-4.0-rediscovering-growth.aspx
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