Industry 4.0 technologies will increasingly be incorporated into the design of factories of the future. Digitalisation, intelligent automation, and ‘smartisation’ will allow these factories to operate more productively, efficiently and cost effectively, Freight News sister publication, Engineer IT, has reported.
Quoted in the report, Raymond Obermeyer, managing director of SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa, explains that Industry 4.0 includes all the opportunities for digitally networked production. It means that networked and centrally controlled machinery and components can make independent decisions decentrally.
“Industrial production strategies have traditionally been based on central and hierarchical control entities. Industry 4.0 technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), are changing this, allowing machines, components and work pieces to be smart, with the ability to self-organise,” he said.
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