{"id":7850,"date":"2017-11-21T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2017-10-12T06:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:49:55","slug":"smart-factories-advanced-manufacturing-technologies-for-industry-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/smart-factories-advanced-manufacturing-technologies-for-industry-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Factories: Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Industry 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing, the Internet of Things, Machine Learning, advanced Robotics, and Cyber-Physical systems are technologies becoming widely deployed in manufacturing. The trend towards this kind of advanced manufacturing is being called labels like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/industrie4.0.gtai.de\/INDUSTRIE40\/Navigation\/EN\/Topics\/Industrie-40\/smart-factory.html\">Smart Factories<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industry_4.0\">Industry 4.0<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>A survey <a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturing.prudentialretirement.com\/_Assets\/Documents_PDFs\/CorpMfg-SurveyHiglights-RSFLRE201.pdf\">by the Economist<\/a> finds that 63 percent of manufacturing organizations is now in the midst of a transformation while another 19 percent say that they are currently developing a strategy for initiating a transformation.\u00a0 A similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/smart-factories-Deloitte-talent-shortage-manufacturing\/506932\/\">survey by CapGemini<\/a> found that three quarters of manufacturers are implementing or planning a smart factory strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte <a href=\"https:\/\/dupress.deloitte.com\/dup-us-en\/focus\/industry-4-0\/smart-factory-connected-manufacturing.html\">says that<\/a> &#8220;the smart factory represents a leap forward from more traditional automation to a fully connected and flexible system&#8230; A\u00a0smart factory can integrate data from system-wide physical, operational and human assets to drive manufacturing, maintenance and inventory tracking digitization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/global\/en\/profiles\/gcoleman.html\">Gary Coleman<\/a>, senior advisor at Deloitte Consulting, said that &#8220;the Fourth Industrial Revolution is still in its nascent state. 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