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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is conquering every industry, especially in manufacturing
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is conquering every industry, especially in manufacturing.
Usually called Industry 4.0, with definitions directly related to automation industry. It has and will continue creating multiple challenges for manufacturers globally
Industry 4.0 usually reminds us of technology breakthroughs, was predicted not only having a great impact on every nation, every government, every organization, and every person globally, but also changing the living, working, and manufacturing norms.
Industry 4.0 is the latest smart automatize and data interchange in manufacturer technology. Industry 4.0 includes physical network, Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. Industry 4.0 creates a great opportunity for smart factory, also called as “digital factory”.
Amongst these factories, the cyber-physical system monitors the physical process to duplicate a virtual copy. With IoT, these cyber-physical monitors interact with each other’s and human in real life; and with IoT, end users can participate in the value chain by using these services, etc.
These terms simply describe an ecosystem where machines and devices being able to improve processes through automation and optimization.
These benefits are not only for manufacturing products but also can be expanded for strategic planning, supply chain or even product development. This is a place where the ability to connect human, machines, or anything through Internet, shorten the distance between the virtual world and the real one, empower the humankind to make agile decisions.
The eye of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the smart factories. In fact, most of the Vietnamese organizations are not prepared and equipped for the revolution that destined to “flip the whole manufacture industry globally”.
Manufacturers are searching for the latest technical solutions in Industry 4.0 with the purpose of monitoring and creating their own smart factory. This is the factory where Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems cooperate to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency
Thanks to the development of Industry 4.0, brought in Digital Collaboration Platform, help optimize and integrate all existing systems from different digital solutions suppliers, not only it does not replace but also maintains and does not affect the daily production activities of the business
The two main factors: technology and human in Industry 4.0 did have some great impact on supporting organizations in the journey of building the smart factories.
Digital transformation is the core factor of Industry 4.0, the cyber-physical system where physical machines are enabled to communicate directly to each other through digital network is going to be the mainstay of smart factories.
There are some latest technological trends are used to define Industry 4.0 includes: cyber-physical systems, IoT, Big Data, Advanced Sensor Technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive and so much more.
In this modern world, there are a few companies can adapt and practice these trends as well having the mentioned technologies of their own. Therefore, in order to survive in this agile era and to follow these trends, manufacturers need to cautiously consider between multiple different open technology platforms and flexibly help their organizations to implement those technologies without any difficulties and with the highest effectiveness.
Industry 4.0 requires the brand-new norms when it comes to manufacturing; as a result, the necessity to adjust the role, knowledge, and skills of human resources in these smart factories becomes essential.
When these smart factories are step-by-step emerging, people need to take on a more complex responsibility. In the process of automatization, machines will do the boring, repetitive tasks, or those dangerous jobs that could never find enough human resources.
Then, human would turn from “manual labor worker” to “monitor and decision maker” using the collected data from machines, being able to solve any problems timely, without interrupting the manufacturing chain.
There are researches prove that technology could not replace human. The more modern technologies are being used in factories, the more necessary indirect occupations will appear. In return, there will be new suppliers in the new technology industry, encourage the smart factory to be more innovative externally.
At the end, investing in a smart factory and human resources with necessary skills will be beneficial, as it creates a safe and trustworthy factory.
With countless challenges and complex technology trends, human resources need to adjust their mindset and action, as the journey to smart factories requires vision and discipline.
Being one the few companies leading in the Enterprise Digitalization Platform, xtechs provides solutions called XINGATE 3.0* – a corporate portal integrating workflows and process from departments, such as Marketing, Finance, or customer services to suppliers, manufacturers (a purchasing raw materials, tools, machines, production, etc. step), then to sales representatives of one, or many factories or companies.
xtechs’s representatives announced, xtechs has successfully integrated data virtualization on XINGATE 3.0* platform. This empower all the related departments to monitor, receive data timely about the status of the machinery chains in factories on mobile devices. The connection within the automation chains in modern factories is significant to departments and related positions, as it helps improve productivity, creates punctual decisions, minimize the operational cost
Sharing the benefits and the direct impact of Industry 4.0, Mr. Thai Vong, a Solution Architect, deploying IoT solution specialist at xtechs, he said: “The Industry 4.0 is blossoming amongst manufactures in Europe”.
According to Mr. Thai Vong, being able to participate in consulting and deploying the automation in Germany, help him and his colleagues at xtechs has successfully deployed the implementation of Intranet In-a-box to a leading German manufacturing company, includes integrating social networks, announcement, wiki, blogs, search and workflows. Thus, collaborations will become easier for organizations, projects, manufacturers, or departments, and also information sharing, the know-how, content and document management, ect. will be more efficient and secured.
“Meanwhile, xtechs’s partners are well-known manufactures of Europe, requires the absolute accuracy, with thousands of machines in the production chain on multiple devices, the amount of data appeares, in second, in sensor devices is massive, and in order to solve the problem of system performance, we have to implement optimize storage architect for both physical spaces and time series data”, Ms. Thao Nguyen – CEO of xtechs explained.
In particular, the application of IoT communication standards in industry (OPC Foundation), helps to quickly solve real-time communication between machines (Machine to Machine), thus managers can receive information immediately.
“The next following steps on the digital journey applied to business will use artificial intelligence (AI) related to Bots for predictive maintenance and supply chain integration. with the production line of more than thousands of industrial machines “, xtechs representative confidently shared.
By integrating smart storage system, easily connecting data between machines, processes, people … helps users to systemize and make analysis and processing quickly and effectively. Helping to connect not only machines to machines, or machines to people but also effective direct connection between machines and businesses on an Enterprise Digitalization Platform (XINGATE 3.0)
*XINGATE 3.0 is now known as smartTiles. For further information, please visit our website
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