Requirements to Enter Industry 4.0

Factory automation control often deemed as one of the important aspects of

industry 4.0. IoT, real-time monitoring, data collection, and AI abilities are

required as they are the essential parts to Industry 4.0. IoT provides the ability

that allows vertical and horizontal communications between automation

equipment. Real-time monitoring, Data collection, and AI are also functions that

are required to enter Industry 4.0. HMI offers data transparency and accessibility

to integrate these functions to serves as factory automation controller.

Vision-equipped IoT Controller Makes Industrial Machinery Agile and Efficient

The convergence of physical and digital worlds is giving rise to the Smart Factory

and a new generation of industrial machinery. This new era, known as Industry 4.0., 

focuses on using the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to

streamline manufacturing and business processes, improve versatility and precision, 

and boost quality and capacity.

However, the challenges in turning a factory into a Smart Factory to achieve these

advantages and increase overall competiveness are steep. 

Challenges include:

The sheer variety and size of the machinery involved

The complexity of distributed control systems that can include hundreds of control

nodes

The mulutitde of sensors and other legacy devices in isolated networks never

designed for Internet connection