Smart Manufacturing posts

With the arrival of 4.0 technologies, maintenance "has changed the pace" are the words of Diego Galar, one of the leading maintenance experts in Spain. In this interview we take a look at the impact of maintenance technologies over the last decades until the arrival of Industry 5.0.

Disrupting technologies like IoT, AI, or Edge Computing have come to enhance SCADAs and PLCs. Proper co-existence and integration of product, human and processes, between OT and IT, will be the key for the industrial sector to jump on board with the fourth industrial revolution.

More than half of the electronic devices manufactured in the world are already IoT, i.e. they are capable of communicating data over computer networks. The possibilities facilitated by IoT applications allow to go further in industrial maintenance; going from preventive maintenance to predictive and even prescriptive maintenance.