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and packaging. ‘All of these industries already have mechanical modules; they mostly have problems of programming and reprogramming these modules because this is still a bit centralised. With our technology we don’t care about this because it’s really plug- and-play.’ Te mechanical interfaces must be
standardised, which is much more complicated than the electronic interfaces, Professor Zühlke noted. Companies like Bosch already have a shelf of hardware modules that fit together, but it makes sense to have modularity and plug-and-play compatibility based on standards at the network level, he added. It’s not just Germany or
Siemens has also opened an electronics
plant in Chengdu, China that’s based on the Amberg factory. To give an idea of the efficiency of the plant, compared to similar buildings, the facility uses around 2,500 metric tons less water, emits 820 metric tons less CO2
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Europe that’s researching and building these smart factories. Te US has similar programmes, such as those run by the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition, while in Asia a lot of R&D spending is going into smart factories. In a study analysing the patents filed for Industry 4.0 technologies, Fraunhofer IAO has found that China outstripped the USA and Germany in terms of the sheer numbers of patents registered over the last three years, including technologies in the fields of wireless sensors networks, embedded systems, robotics and big data.
commented that it will take another 10 years until these smart factories are found across a broad range of industries, mainly because there are such long time constants in mechanical engineering and machinery systems, which have a lifetime
of 20 or 30 years. ‘Industry 4.0 will be driven by the advances in the IT technologies, which have much shorter lifecycles,’ he said. ‘You can’t afford any longer to sell systems with a lifetime of 20 years. ‘Te application of Industry 4.0 production
equipment will start earlier in some industries,’ he added. ‘In Germany, you can see the first pilot lines already running with some companies. In two or three years we will really see systems running in the real production environment. In five to ten years it will emerge in broader applications.’ O
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