Call it as the fourth industrial revolution or
industry 4.0, there is no denying that a fundamental shift in the supply chain
is changing the way manufacturing industries operate. The August issue of
International Metalworking News for Asia explores a range of articles associated
with Industry 4.0. These articles implement digital improvements to business
processes that are key to growth.
While
modern portal machines have now achieved high level optimisation in terms of
performance, and dynamics are little more than details, the question of service
is becoming more important. After all, what characterises a good relationship
between supplier and user? Zimmermann is currently working on an app that will
display the machine state to the customer at all times. If an error occurs, the
user immediately sees a message that is sent directly to the company. Find out
more in this month’s Metal Cutting section.
Despite
the fact that there is an awareness of the importance of digital transformation
in South East Asia, this has not yet fully translated into reality. Majority of
the companies in the region are still not fully on board, suggesting that the
digital transformation race has really only just started in South East Asia.
Enterprise Close- up features two executives from Siemens who are experts in
digital factory. Here, they talk about digital concepts for companies of
different types. They propose effective technology improvements to help
customers optimise their manufacturing processes, and digitalise their assets
and machineries to better manage operations on a facility-wide level.
Meanwhile,
users of CNC manufacturing processes are now expecting
improved capability in precision part machining, reduced setting and process
adjustment time, and integration with automation systems. Learn about Renishaw
Equator flexible gauge now offered with IPC (intelligent process control)
software, providing the functionality to fully automate tool offset updates in
CNC manufacturing processes, in this issue’s Metrology section. This capability
has said to be already used by Renishaw customers worldwide to achieve
considerable performance gains across a wide variety of industries,
applications and CNC machine types, including lathes, machining centres and
highly automated machining cells.
We sincerely trust that you
will have as much pleasure reading this edition of International Metalworking
News for Asia magazine as we enjoyed compiling topics about digitalisation for
you. Happy Reading!
