Industrie 4.0 / Manufacturing X
The next steps in Industrie 4.0 will be AI recommendation systems in production, new approaches to robotics, virtualization of hardware, digital twins, manufacturing X, focus on cognitive ergonomics, open source and data rooms with connected platform.
Industrie 4.0 is alive and well. Markets are changing faster, supply chains have become more fragile, and industry needs a more modular approach to production – automation, robotics, software, and digital images of assets are critical to success in the near future. The first years of Industrie 4.0 were characterized by sensor technology, communication protocols and the networking of machines.
How Industrie 4.0 is changing factories
Industrie 4.0 continues to evolve, growing with technological possibilities, and many products have matured over the past few years. Digital business models such as Robotics as a Service or platforms are emerging (even though only a few of them are already successful) around classic hardware products. In marketplaces for software applications, the focus is primarily on an ever-increasing simplification of engineering in order to save time. At the same time, this reduces the time to market for many suppliers. Low-code applications and open-source projects and applications are in greater demand than ever before in industry, because they accelerate developments at the same time as making them more flexible. In addition, there are new requirements not only for operating concepts for machines, but above all also for robots. Human-machine cooperation and the cognitive ergonomics of systems are among the megatrends in this continuing chapter of Industrie 4.0.
At the same time, many companies are relying on the Digital Twin – the digital image of components and entire production plants. Engineers develop and test their technologies in a virtual space. Only then are they migrated to the shop floor. The first providers are already presenting virtual or virtualized control systems. The hardware vanishes, the control programs are relocated to the data center. The networking achieved in the early days of Industrie 4.0 is now making it possible to establish secure data spaces such as Manufacturing X, which can be shared by many companies. This creates the prerequisite for visualization of machinery and equipment, and their processes. The data rooms are intended to enable new business models for machine learning as well.
Continuation of Industrie 4.0
This new chapter of Industrie 4.0 is now a story of new applications, new possibilities in factories, where mobile robots move machines overnight and rejig production processes, humans collaborate with robots, and AI models recommend actions. And it is a story of increasing risks. Cybersecurity is the top issue for industry's decision makers. Despite all the euphoria about the technology and IIoT approaches – the risks and associated challenges are huge. At HANNOVER MESSE, you will find the solutions for this.
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