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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Identify how to determine if your company is moving quickly enough with Industry 4.0 Review differences in Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and digital transformation. Understand Industry 4.0 It has been a dozen years of Industry 4.0 Is there an Industry 5.0?

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TCL doubles down on smart manufacturing for air conditioning production

AU Manufacturing

TCL Electronics has completed Phase I of TCL Wuhan Intelligent Industrial Park, reiterating its smart manufacturing commitments to support the production of premium air conditioners with an annual manufacturing capacity of over six million units.

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The Future of Smart Supply Chain with Industry 4.0

ATS

Once the supply chain experiences challenges, manufacturers will almost immediately see higher prices, longer delivery times and extended resource time to make alternate plans and maintain customer relations. Supply chain digital transformation — driven by Industry 4.0 Digital transformation in logistics and supply chain.

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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

Working with Microsoft and PWC, ZF is creating a ZF industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform in the cloud as one point of information, to be downloaded and applied for fast decision-making for 250 plants globally. maturity roadmap, with strategic prefunding to optimize smart factory development, said Gonzalez-Alanso.

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Innodisk’s Subsidiary Antzer Tech Introduces New CAN FD Solution for 5G V2X and AIoT Smart Manufacturing Applications

i4.0 today

Despite the data transmission complexity, the new CAN FD solution can break through the limitations of CANbus and contribute to unmanned transformation systems in smart manufacturing and logistics scenarios. In addition, the CAN FD solution features high fault tolerance and debugging capabilities to enhance data reliability.

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G+D and China Unicom Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate eSIM Rollout

i4.0 today

They range from connected vehicles, smart logistics and smart grids to smart building, smart city and smart home applications. In particular, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is growing dynamically in Industry 4.0 scenarios such as smart manufacturing.

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

Augmented reality (AR) insights 5G was seen as a key enabler of digital transformation in enterprises and of the overall Industry 4.0 paradigm, but 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 The literature on enterprise AR within Industry 4.0 To smart manufacturing enterprises, the ratio is 1 to every 4.