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What to do to really enter the Industry 4.0 era?
One of the most recurrent themes nowadays, when we talk about technological evolution, is the new era of Industry 4.0. In an article published by the CIO website on 02/21/18, “Why the Brazilian industry is so behind”, the author discusses the current situation of the Brazilian industry and what companies must do to, in fact, enter this new era.
Among the five points raised, we highlight a specific one that we will reproduce here:
“Integration of people and systems
Ricardo Gonçalves, business development director at Pollux, an assembly line equipment manufacturer, comments that the Brazilian factory floor, in its majority, doesn’t present technological defasagem, in other words, old machines. The issue, he says, is the delays in software.
“More than 80% of the software installed in Brazil is different from each other. It is one for planning, another to generate indicators, another for quality, traceability, etc. If you think about the recent past of companies, ERP came to unite everything. It is more or less this process that is occurring on the factory floor. There are several systems connected and you can’t have a global vision. It is a process similar to ERP,” comments Gonçalves.
More than just moving machines to the cloud, the executive says a central platform is needed. “It’s a combination of hardware and software to make the transformation actually happen.”
Besides the integration of processes, Gonçalves points out another urgent need for the projects to actually get off the ground. As several specialists have already warned, the profile of professionals is going to change. While transactional and repetitive functions will lose relevance, other essential roles will emerge.
One of them pointed out by the executive is the Industry 4.0 manager, or industrial internet manager, a person responsible for the integration of two fundamental areas for the progress of production digitalization: operations and IT.
“In most cases there is a conflict. There is a lot of software to be put in the factories, but the level of integration of the IT professional with the operations professional is low. The person on the factory floor asks to leave the IT professional out, and vice-versa. There is a big challenge of interaction”, he points out.
According to the executive, large companies in the country are already creating this “intermediary” area, for convergence between the two sectors. And amidst the challenges and opportunities, suppliers like Pollux are swimming in the water. The company’s revenue has quadrupled in the last 3 years, which propelled it to third place in the Small and Medium Company ranking – PME that grew the most in Brazil (in the automation market it was the first), according to the classification of Delloite in partnership with Exame.
“Last year, we doubled the digital manufacturing area and we have a goal to double it again this year,” adds Gonçalves.”
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