{"id":3823,"date":"2017-01-12T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/making-industry-4-real_011217\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:51:00","slug":"making-industry-4-real_011217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/making-industry-4-real_011217\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Industry 4.0 Real For Manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Industry 4.0 has become a buzzword in the manufacturing industry today. There is a reason for it. There has not been a full-scale change in the way we manufacture goods since the days of Henry Ford. The PLC (programmable logic controller), MES (manufacturing execution system), first generation robots have all made incremental improvements to efficiency but not to the same extent. Now with Industry 4.0 the change is beginning to happen.<\/p>\n
But what is Industry 4.0? The danger of the buzzwords is that many service providers are trying to label their legacy services and solutions as Industry 4.0 and confusing clients. We at HfS Research believe that Industry 4.0—or the fourth industrial revolution—is the confluence of many technologies coming together in manufacturing for the creation of smart factories with significantly high efficiency, productivity, quality and flexibility than the current state. It will enable mass customization in manufacturing. While it will take few decades to enable promises of mass customization at scale, the journey has started. <\/p>\n
While most engineering, consulting, technology, and business process services in manufacturing industry offered today (even legacy services!) can help enterprises in their Industry 4.0 journey in some way, we have identified 13 enabling technologies that we believe are critical for any enterprise to accelerate its Industry 4.0 journey.<\/p>\n