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FOODPRO IN-DEPTH
Adopting Industry 4.0
Open IIOT is on the road again and can be seen live and in action at this year’s foodpro in Sydney.
ESTABLISHED in 2018, the cohort was formed to promote and assist with the adoption of Industry 4.0 by the manufacturing industry.
“As component suppliers with a global presence we have a wealth of knowledge and examples in various countries, industries and applications. The adoption of Industry 4.0 was well established in Europe (where most of us have our head offices) but the pace of uptake in Australia left us with concerns.”
“For our businesses and the Australian economy, it is vital
barriers to implementation are removed and that we get our manufacturing sector get up to speed with digitisation as soon as possible,” says an Open IIoT spokesperson.
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The Open IIoT group is made up of a number of Australia’s key players in the automation and manufacturing industry: SMC Corporation, NORD Drivesystems, Baluff, Beckhoff Automation, ZI-Argus and recent addition KUKA Robotics.
Together they have used their expertise in pneumatics, drive
technology, sensors, automation, systems integration and robotics to create a fully operational demonstrator (demo) unit. This demo unit showcases all the Open IIoT members’ components working together
in unison communicating
their ‘smarts’ to an Industry
4.0 software platform.
The group’s goal in combining their expertise and individual components
is to create the demo unit
that shows the benefits of full IIoT integration in a visually accessible way. The demo units provides a high-level overview of Industry 4.0 in practice
and shows how implementing IIoT can provide the user
with intelligence that can increase production, reduce downtime, help predict trends and allow for adaptability within the business.
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