What is the basis for a sustainable industry? The Industria 4.0
It is the fusion between new technologies and energy efficiency.
An industry focused on the manufacturing of efficient products, aimed at a consumer profile demanding the reduction of energy costs, and aware of the responsible use of energy.
The Industria 4.0
It is articulated around several technological advances that favor this industrial transformation:
Internet of Things (IoT)
: digital interconnection of objects/machines with the internet. That allows interaction and communication between them and with centralized controllers.
Big Data
: analysis solution for extremely large amounts of semi- or unstructured data.
Cybersecurity
: technologies that guarantee privacy, security and data protection, through reliable and secure communications.
Augmented reality
: devices that add virtual information to already existing physical information.
Robots
: Intelligent, autonomous and with their own work capacity, but directed by humans.
Advantages of new industry models
Based on these advances, industries and companies must begin to transform their work environments and change the way they relate to factories, always for the sake of improving productivity and the customer experience with the manufactured product.
There are many advantages of this new industry model:
The ability to adapt to demand.
Greater personalization of customer service.
Improved after-sales service.
A significant reduction in design, production and sales times.
A post-production information report.
It is in this last point where we can see the true potential of the Industria 4.0. The information we can receive from the new processes will make it easier for us to identify opportunities for improvement.
Opening new opportunities
We are talking about technologies that make it possible to do things differently from how they have been done until now. Technologies that offer new opportunities:
Creating value for clients.
The differentiation of the company in an increasingly competitive environment.
An optimization of current operations in an environment based on efficiency and sustainability.
This new strategic vision of the company based on the need to be more efficient in all processes and integrate and rethink the business model in terms of sustainability, are the keys to business survival in the medium and long term. The achievement of these objectives is what must move any transformation towards a industry 4.0
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Boards of Directors and Management Committees
They are including sustainability information in their analysis and strategic decision-making processes, in order to define the path that the company must follow in its sustainable digital transformation process. But to do this they need both solutions for capturing, analyzing and reporting sustainability information, as well as robotization solutions that automate the process of capturing all this information, in a process consistent with the application of the concept of sustainable digital transformation to the different challenges that companies face.
Adaptation to this new reality will not be equally rapid in all sectors, but what is clear is that failure to do so will mean missing the boat of competitiveness. It is time for each company to ask itself what Industria 4.0 is going to mean for it, and define its own transition model.
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