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Industry 4.0 Technologies: If Only I Had Known
March 26, 2018 | Michael Ford, Aegis Software Corp.Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
The real winner, of course, is the manufacturing operation itself. Industry 4.0 digitalization based on CFX means that ultimately, the complete factory operation can be digitally modelled. Rather than having critical operational production management decisions taking days with many meetings and phone calls, using the digital factory model, changes and adjustments can be confidently executed in minutes or even seconds, for example, to introduce new products, adjust order or delivery quantities, with the assurance that materials will be available, where and when needed, that utilization and efficiency of machines will not suffer, and that no excess finished goods stock need be accumulated. No more excuses in management meetings with the phrase, “if only I had known.” The digitalized factory based on CFX becomes a very lean, digital, high-performance manufacturing engine, that can cope with a far higher mix of products yet also provide far higher throughput and efficiency. The digital model extends further, to provide automated conformance and compliance, a complete digital traceability record, with qualified meaningful data fed to the cloud for enterprise-grade analytics for future business development.
Though we will look back to see that 2018 was the year in which digitalized Industry 4.0 factories with CFX started, the growth that follows in terms of accessible, available and uncomplicated digitalization will be remembered over many years. CFX digitalization is available to all sizes and sectors of manufacturing companies. It will be stable and dependable, as Industry 4.0 technologies based on CFX evolve into everyone’s everyday tools.
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