For a few years we listen to terms such as Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence or Internet of Things in the field of companies. Today, we do not conceive a world without the new technologies that revolutionize our way of working and consuming. All this has meant a new industrial revolution that has gradually composed industry 4.0, where communication and technologies are the basis of industrial processes.

What is industry 4.0?

This is the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 or also called intelligent industry, seeks to transform the company into an intelligent organization and digitize industrial processes to improve productivity and get better results.

The most important thing in industry 4.0 is processes automation . This is very common to see it, above all, in large industrial companies, where the hand of man works with artificial intelligence or together with the Machine Learning to improve the production process and manage to use the available resources more efficiently.

You could also say that connectivity is one of its bases, since it tries to connect the different chains and production units . For its part, the digital information obtained provides great benefits to correct errors and think about the future. It allows to have all the units of the company in the same unit.

Advantages of digitalization in industrial processes

As we have already said, it is a digitalization of all the processes of the supply chain of an industry . From the product idea to the sale. After all, it is one more strategy that is taken in a company and as such, it has to have an objective in mind, to improve the productive processes to be more competitive.

Like everything, the use of the different tools of industry 4.0 provides great advantages to industrial companies, which become better results.

  1. Allows you to always be adapted to what they demand
  2. You can offer your customers a more personalized service thanks to the data
  3. intelligence and Machine Learning allows you to design and produce products in less time than the traditional way
  4. Production chains will be shorter and more profitable
  5. data provides great information that can be analyzed to make better decisions
  6. Treat resources more efficiently

So, industry 4.0 has arrived to transform everything. Digitization has become a challenge through which all industrial companies are happening, because after all, overcoming competition is what gives us results and benefits.