When we talk about Industry 4.0, we cannot fail to refer to the concept of automation. If you aim to have interconnected, digitized companies with cutting-edge technological processes, it becomes inevitable to talk about automation.
What is meant by automation
A term that arose to identify everything necessary to make a machine (or process) work automatically and thus without human intervention. Industrial automation exploits mechanical, electronic and computer technologies to control industrial production processes by governing flows of energy, materials and information. The IT development achieved in recent years has made it possible to achieve increasingly important levels of automation that have enabled a significant improvement in the production chain.
Where does automation come from?
Turning our gaze to the past, we can see that early plant and machinery were designed to replace humans within factories, preventing them from performing harmful or extremely repetitive roles that caused them to be alienated from the industrial world. Later more and more sophisticated equipment was introduced to speed up the workflow, significantly reducing the time required to produce a single product. Today, the concept of automation has evolved considerably by entrusting real robots not only with the purely operational phases of work, but also with the management of information (through Industry 4.0) in a totally interconnected and digitized work process.
The role of industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 enables the proper computerized use of data, a system to centralize the flow of information, and consequently the exploitation of collected data-the next step to complete the development of intelligent machinery. Automation and artificial intelligence then become the pillars of so-called “machine learning,” literally translated as “machine learning.”
The future
The real challenge of Industry 4.0 is precisely in developing effective machine learning systems: as they work, machines will learn new notions, be able to communicate them with each other, and significantly improve the entire work process. An improvement both at the quality level, producing excellent products with minimal waste of defective products, and at the timing level, reducing production time to the maximum and generating not only an economic but also a strategic advantage.
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