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5 BELIEVE THE HYPE. I enjoy stories about the most modern of technologies being combined with inventions
that have been around for thousands of years, such as agriculture. Smart farms are a great example of this. A mushroom farm in South Korea recently mecha- nised many of the manual tasks in its production chain through the use of robots and automated equipment. This was coupled with smart sensors and data analytics which optimised fertil- iser-to-soil ratios. The bottom line is that output increased by almost a third as a result of these changes.
To return to the opening question: Yes we should believe the hype sur- rounding Industry 4.0. Smart facto- ries are not only the way of the future, in many places they are an increasing part of the present. However, the uptake of new technologies will not be uniform, and manufacturers should have a clear strategy in place, taking into consideration some of the factors highlighted here. ■
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