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Is there such a thing as an Industry 4.0 standard ? Does ‘Conforms to Industry 4.0 standard ’ have any meaning ? No.The term is meaningless. There is no yardstick that you can use to say ‘This system conforms to the Industry 4.0 standard’. Industry 4.0 is merely a term used to denote a kind […]

Machine data monitoring systems sound scary, expensive, very high tech, and long term. They are actually not any of these. With a proper roadmap you can start seeing benefits rapidly, economically, in just a couple of weeks. You can get return on full investment in just 1 to 3 months, depending on the

Plan for reducing 3 big machine downtimes caused by work ethics issues In a lot of shops, just machine downtime at shift changes and extended break times can account for up to 1.5 hours in each 8-hour shift, which is an astounding 18 % of available time. If you also have night time

What does Industry 4.0 do to the daily morning production meeting ? All of us in manufacturing, we dread those daily morning production meetings, right ? With Industry 4.0, you’ll actually start loving the meetings. Production meetings the current way For half an hour before the time of the meeting, we look at

Is Industry 4.0 relevant only for shop floors with high automation levels ? For some reason, Industry 4.0 is always mentioned in the same breath as Robotics, Additive manufacturing, Virtual Reality, Augmented reality. So what does this mean ? Is Industry 4.0 not for me if I do not use any of these

Industry 4.0 terms and Industry 4.0 buzzwords – the ‘need to know’, and ‘can throw in the dustbin’. This article is for users of Industry 4.0, who are confused by all the Industry 4.0 terms and Industry 4.0 buzzwords that are thrown at you whenever you try to understand what Industry 4.0 is,