Smart Factory: integration of technologies and processes – Praim

Today's industry is experiencing an extraordinary moment, in terms of evolution and efficiency of opportunities and potential for transformation enabled by the advent of new technologies that are now gathered under the umbrella of the so-called Industry 4.0. This term, which represents the advent of a new Industrial Revolution, the fourth, encompasses a set of innovation and technological developments, all potentially competing in transforming today's industrial processes from the very root, making them totally different from those of the past. However, if taken as stand-alone, these new techniques or developments may seem like only promising "add-ons" to today's factory, already highly automated/digitized and intelligent in its own way. All enabled by advanced connectivity, simulation tools, Edge and Cloud computing to support computation, IoT, automation and advanced robotics and new, more sustainable and efficient energy supply sources. But what represents the real keystone of the "4.0 Factory", however, is the very high degree of interconnection between all these technologies, both with each other and with all the different sub-processes and systems in the same chain of production, from logistics to production, from design to order management and quality check.