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Implementing Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium-sized Industries




Introdution to Industry 4.0

What is Industry 4.0?

According to IBM, it is 'the digital transformation of the industrial sector, providing real-time decisions, improved efficiency in production, greater flexibility, and agility in processes

In other words, the implementation of technologies for the capture and processing of information from processes in an automatic way.

In this topic, the following stand out: sensing, data analysis by artificial intelligence, and digitization of processes.



How to introduce this topic in your company?

  1. Ensuring standardization of processes;
  2. Organizing information in a way that is easily found and concatenated;
  3. Defining ways to group information and metrics;
The automation of processes presupposes a pre-established control; by carrying out these actions, you have a more guaranteed success in the implementation in your company.



Planning and Organization of the Process

How to implement assertively?
Planning flowchart.

Digitalization of the Process

What is Digitalization of the Process?

Transformation of physical records into digital records, regardless of the tool used.

What defines the best tool is solely the need of the process.

Examples of tools can be: automated spreadsheets and ready-made or customized applications.



Associated Benefits
  • Process history:
    • Ability to analyze metrics and past evolution to invest in more assertive actions;
    • Evaluate the impact of changes over time;
  • Agility in report generation:
    • Automatic concatenation of images, measurements, etc., in standard reports;
    • Metrics updated automatically.
  • And more.


How to choose the best tool?

Analyze:
  • How the current registration is done;
  • What should or could be recorded for generating metrics or more information about the process;
  • General objectives with digitization.


REVERO's Role

We assist in choosing the best way to standardize and digitize your process;

We develop customized solutions in collaboration with you;

Additionally, we have systems in development for:
    • Inventory Control and
    • Internal Service Control.


References

IBM. What is Industry 4.0?

McKinsey Digital, 2015. Industry 4.0: How to navigate digitization of the manufacturing sector