The challenges of SMEs in the industry 4.0
It is clear that in many of these situations the SMEs are far from industry 4.0. Something showed in reports like the one made by Eaton. In its report, it is indicated that, in industry, SMEs are the companies that risk the most with the transition to industry 4.0. SMEs have to define their own strategies to adopt these new technologies in the best possible way to sure a satisfactory return on investment in the short term.
Reports like the one of Eaton also indicate that as a first step it is fundamental to obtain all the information we have in our factories in order to perform a detailed analysis of the most susceptible procedures to be improved. And also in order to define steps to innovation.
In addition, SMEs are experimenting how their clients demand more and more detailed information about the machine parameters and procedures. And its main goal is to achieve greater productivity and greater efficiency.
Monitoring the way to industry 4.0
We have seen that SMEs need industry 4.0, we have seen that SMEs are usually far from industry 4.0, and we have also seen that as first step they need to recover data from their factories and they have to be able to analyze that data.
In this way, monitoring is a fundamental element for digital transformation of the factories.
The great advantage of monitoring in the transformation towards the industry 4.0 is that it allows:
- Automate data recording
- Replace the recording of information in papers
- Achieve useful information from all the data recorded
- Analyze all the information
- Visualize the conclusions in a personalized way.
Monitoring solutions as the one proposed by Muutech help SMEs to improve and advance in the implantation of industry 4.0 in a simple and progressive way.