INDUSTRY 4.0
Cloud business models will ‘not stop for industry’
Greg Blackman reports on the progress being made in Industry 4.0, as discussed during the EMVA conference held in June
T
he term Industry 4.0 is 10 years old. At the opening ceremony of the 2011 Hannover fair, Professor Wolfgang
Wahlster, founding director of DFKI, the German research centre for artificial intelligence (AI), first introduced the idea of the fourth industrial revolution to an audience that included German chancellor Angela Merkel. Ten years later and factories are now
becoming more connected. In an article published by DFKI in April, Wahlster stated: ‘New factories today are always designed as flexible factories. Te days of having a factory designed for only one specific product line are truly over.’ During a discussion about Industry 4.0 at
the EMVA’s online business conference in June, Dr Kai-Udo Modrich, head of inline inspection and metrology at Zeiss, said that Industry 4.0 is no longer just an academic term but is transforming manufacturing in many sectors. So, what do vision firms need to be aware
of as manufacturing becomes more digital? One area is pay-per-use – such as software-
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as-a-service (SaaS) – business models, which have become widespread in IT, and which Dr Gunther Kegel, chief executive at Pepperl and Fuchs and president of ZVEI, noted during the EMVA discussion will ‘not stop for industry’. ‘[Pay-per-use] will become our business,’
he said, ‘especially if we talk about more complex integration, more complex sensing solutions, and image processing by definition is complex’. Software and IT providers don’t offer
on-premise solutions anymore, just cloud- based ones. Te service model has also reached computer vision through Amazon’s Lookout for Vision, which is cloud-based, giving subscribers access to neural
something substantially different, and it leads us into new data- driven businesses’
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