Event Details

Creating a “Smart Factory” – exploring potential and identifying key challenges

OPC Foundation is proudly supporting this event
Find more Information here http://www.amiplastics.com

• Join the presentation of Stefan Hoppe, VP OPC Foundation
• March 7th, 15:40h
• “OPC UA: A global standardisation for industrial
  interoperability-adoption from sensor to Cloud and plastics industry”

Industry 4.0 – sometimes referred to as the fourth Industrial
Revolution or the Smart Factory – applies the power of the internet
to manufacturing. For producers of plastic parts, it promises to be a
real game-changer, allowing every processing detail to be attached
to a component for immediate recall from anywhere in the world at
any time.

For plastics processors there are, of course, some big challenges. How
should a Smart Factory be structured? How does the manufacturing
network connect with those of suppliers and customers – and
ultimately end-users? What needs to be done to ensure system
reliability? How can vital production data be secured within this
distributed model? How can the huge amounts of information –
Big Data – be most effectively analysed? And who owns the data
generated – the processor or the customer?