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Schmalz answers frequently asked questions about Industry 4.0. Find out also what solutions Schmalz provides for this area.
The "fourth industrial revolution" describes the transformation of production towards the intelligent factory. The increased networking of production and IT processes makes this flexible, efficient and sustainable. In the future, products will plan, control and optimize their own production process without human intervention. Humans will continue to dictate the pace, but with the best possible support in their work.
Visions and benefits of Industry 4.0
The IoT, short for Internet of Things, is a system of interconnected physical and virtual objects that interact via information and communications technologies. It enables collaboration between humans and the electronic systems networked in the IoT as well as among the systems themselves.
EPC stands for energy and process control. The diagnostics functions of the energy monitoring and condition monitoring modules ensure maximum process transparency and optimal control of energy consumption; the predictive maintenance module improves the gripper system’s performance and increases the overall quality.
A public cloud is a service that is made freely accessible, usually via the internet. All manner of data may be saved in the cloud.
Unlike a public cloud, a local or private cloud is only accessible to a selected group of users. Companies often use this method of providing information in the interests of data protection and general IT security.
AOI stands for automatic optical inspection and describes systems that use image processing techniques to recognize and retain errors in processes and goods. These systems are used in many different areas of industrial production of goods.
MQTT stands for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport and describes an open messaging protocol for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. This messaging protocol can be used to transmit measurement values between different devices in the form of messages. This technology can be used for sensors and actuators, smartphones, and computers, among others, and is used a as a standard protocol of the IoT.
