Industry takes new technological leap – New Technology

     John Green, Green & amp; Co., and Olof Ståhl, Wemo, demonstrated during the exhibition Scanpack a factory through open interfaces can be easily connected.

COLUMN. Industry 4.0, the next industrial revolution is imminent. Fredrik Karlsson on what is required for Sweden to keep up.

We are in a booth at a trade show where it should look as if it is produced and packaged in plastic products. There stands a reseller of injection molding machines and machine builders.

They point to the production cell and says that it is the future of smart factory.

They call it the Industry 4.0.

And more difficult than it need not be.

Let’s start from the beginning for new readers. Industry 4.0 is a German initiative where the government is investing large sums in the development of German manufacturing. They’ve brought research institutes and companies.

4.0 aims that it is the Fourth Revolution. After the steam engine, electrification and computerization, digitization of connected, intelligent factories where products talk about how they are made.

Angela Merkel is personally driving in Industry 4.0 and has emphasized the German manufacturing industry important role.

We had Fredrik Reinfeldt said that jobs in Swedish industry was “basicly gone “. We got Stefan Löfven who spoke about nyindustrialisering, the industry’s importance for the country and the automation and digitization importance for Swedish jobs. But that is not filled this with more content than that it is still unclear what policies should lift the Swedish industry.

Industry representatives have loudly screamed after treatment in Sweden: Government must take action!

Here already is many errors and says that nothing is done. You miss Growth Works and old löntagarfondsmiljoner channeled to the industry through the Foundation. You miss Robotdalen and Produktionslyftet and Vinnova-funded investments. And you miss the SIA Production 2030, which is almost a Swedish Industry 4.0 we will.

But how is it?

Industry 4.0 – technology or policy?

So reads the title of a talk by Andreas Rosengren, Consultant at Prevas and earlier automation manager at Scania. He has dismissed talk of digitization of the industry has been digital long but he has swung and talking about the news of the development we are right in.

Let’s do one more strike to Swedish industry to demonstrate the technology content. Beckhoff Automation and robot manufacturer Kuka arranged a seminar tour to speak of Industry 4.0. In particular, the technology behind, to highlight that this is the technology that already exists.

It is about connecting the entire factory, to have open interfaces that allow it, be able to stop in and pick out the data and information in the cloud. A digital factory becomes offline. Internet of things will become a reality with products that will know how to be manufactured. There will be mobile, autonomous robots and possibilities of simulation utilized.

So back to the question.

Industri 4.0 – technology or policy?

The answer must be both and.

Of course, the industry argue for greater involvement of the government, but it must also act on their own. For their own sake.

Technological advances and efficiency improvements take place daily in factories around the country without any fancy names.

/www.w3.org/ 1999 / xhtml "> More and more people are starting to realize it. As a machine builder and dealer in the booth at Scanpack.

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