How smart is your factory?
World is transforming at a rapid pace, thanks to digital evolution in recent years. This evolution has brought in disruptive changes and has influenced our perception. The recent advancement in technologies like IOT, 3D printing, Cobots, Augmented reality and more are demanding organizations to adopt to digital ways of managing their operations. Today, everything is referred to as SMART; right from your Smart phone, Smart Homes , Smart Building , Smart Grid , Smart City , , Smart Car and more. On the contrary, about 85% of the manufacturing facilities are still operating in a conventional way, where machines and equipment are working independently without any connectivity to adjacent systems or external world. This very nature of equipment is a huge bottleneck to embark upon a journey of digital transformation within our factories and make them Smart Factories . Let us understand what makes a factory smart and future ready. Connected Machines Machines with local control capabilit...