Industry 4.0
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Industria 4.0
Introduction
The term Industry 4.0 denotes a trend in industrial automation that integrates some new production technologies to improve working conditions and increase the productivity and production quality of plants.
Fundamental point of''Industry 4.0 is the'interconnection and'integration between production processes, which aims at the constant flow of data and information within the company and between companies in the same industry, based on standard communication protocols.
The goal of the national Industry 4.0 plan is to create a business-friendly environment, taking into account the new phase of globalization and ongoing technological changes, through a set of organic and complementary measures that can encourage investment in innovation and competitiveness. All this is made possible by the availability of low-cost wireless or network connections, with increasingly widespread use of data and information, data analysis technologies, and new materials, components and systems that are fully digitized and interconnected.
Industry 4.0, therefore, invests all aspects of the lifecycle of companies that want to increase their competitiveness, offering support in investment, digitization of production processes, enhancement of worker productivity, training of appropriate skills and development of new products and processes.
Recently, with the new Budget Law in effect until 2022, the term Industry 4.0 has been replaced by the more recent 'Transition 4.0 plan, which emphasizes a more sustainability-conscious policy, although the focus of the plan is on all actions aimed at companies that invest in new, tangible and intangible capital goods functional to the technological and digital transformation of production processes intended for production facilities located in the territory of the state. The new plan is also intended to stimulate research and digital training of personnel.
Capital goods
L''Industry 4.0 (or Transition 4.0), as far as the window and door industry is concerned, involved investments on new, tangible and intangible capital goods (fixture production plant and machinery and management software) that improve the production process and promote interconnection, integration and data exchange. It is essential that the machines have PLC control, that the human-machine interface is simple and intuitive, and that legal safety criteria are met.
Revamping and Retrofit
The plan also envisages being able to carry out Revamping and Retrofit activities: the former is extraordinary maintenance of existing production systems or refurbishment, aimed at replacing components in machinery, bringing them up to current safety standards, and integrating and interconnecting them. Retrofit, on the other hand, is a modernization of existing systems through the addition of new electronic controls, new elements not installed before, and new automation systems.
In summary, Revamping is the set of operations to extend the life of the machine while maintaining the original performance; while Retrofit is a procedure to not only restore the original performance but even improve it.
Our proposal
Assuming that, any project pertaining to Industry 4.0 (or Transition 4.0) must always be developed by an accredited consultant and that the stakeholders in these projects are definitely the Service Provider, the Good Producer, the Services Provider, and the Consultant who develops the project, the Opera Company qualifies as a Service Provider.
Our program has always dialogued with any type of profile cutting and processing machinery and offers different connection possibilities through transmission drivers developed according to different technical specifications.
Opera Company offers its customers through its products different solutions for each scenario envisaged by the Industry 4.0 plan (purchase of new, tangible and intangible capital goods, Revamping or Retrofit) for workshop integration and interconnection, and a simple and intuitive interface that facilitates the human/machine relationship.
