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ELECTRIC MOTORS...
ELECTRIC MOTORS...

Beyond industry 4.0: bringing

products to market faster

Stewart Goulding, managing director at precision drive system supplier EMS, explores
how powerful and high precision micromotors can advance automated equipment.

he World Economic Forum (WEF) has set customer demands to stay ahead. Consumers have
up the Global Lighthouse Network – a become accustomed to frequent product launches
group of 44 factories that form a shining and rapid turnover of complex products, driving the
Texample of superior technology integration need for manufacturing speed and agility. A culture
and optimised processes. With the fourth industrial of click and collect and next day delivery means
revolution well underway, facilities other than retailers must be able to get high volumes of
Lighthouse factories must also invest in equipment products from factory to customer – and fast.
that can bring them up to speed. A study by WEF found that over 70 per cent of
The saturated retail market means competition businesses investing in technologies associated with
is high and retailers must meet a variety of Industry 4.0 are not able to take projects beyond

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