Productronica taking place in Munich from November 12 – 15 2013, will pay special attention to a future project known as Industry 4.0. A panel of prominent speakers at a CEO Roundtable will also explore Industry 4.0 on the first day of the fair while the Innovation Forum in Hall B2 will focus on this topic on the third day of the fair.
Whether optimized process control, automation or the intelligent planning of resources – the use of software solutions, sensors and embedded systems in electronics manufacturing is diverse. To move the entire production process forward and make it more transparent, future projects such as Industry 4.0 and production-related systems such as MES (Manufacturing Execution System) or ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) will be key factors for the industry. They also improve the transparency of all functions and processes that are critical to the production process.
Half of the increases in productivity in the European economy during the past 15 years can be attributed to innovations in information and communication technology. In the area of software embedded systems, Germany has achieved a leading position, particularly in the automotive and machine-building sectors. Industry 4.0 is part of the German government’s high-tech strategy. EUR 200 million in subsidies from Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Economics areintended to help to establish Germany as a leading supplier of cyber-physical systems (CPS) – autonomous, networked microsystems and the next step in embedded system development.
“Implementing the visions of Industry 4.0 will bring about fundamental change to the industrial landscape because the machines learn and organise themselves as they work. That, in turn, gives rise to highly stable production quality combined with optimum production-facility output,” explains Dieter Meuser, CTO at iTAC Software.
Important objectives in the transformation process to CPS are even stronger automation and monitoring to be able to control companies and entire added-value networks nearly in real time. International exhibitors of manufacturing and process software will be represented at the fair and present their solutions for the electronics industry as a basis for implementing Industry 4.0.
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