iT operations teams have a key role to play when it comes to using smart technologies and connected systems to optimize manufacturing and support the transition to Industry 4.0. The focus is increasingly on using process automation and data analysis to increase efficiency and find innovative solutions that improve both productivity and sustainability.

How can efficiency be increased?

It is important to strengthen the core areas in a company. This can be achieved by integrating automation solutions and analytical tools that make it possible to optimize processes and reduce resource consumption at the same time.

In production, for example, machines can run better and both waste and energy consumption are significantly reduced.

Of course, it is important that the connectivity is reliable so that the data can be used intensively. Processes can run faster and more precisely if employees can move around in a networked environment. They have all the information and tools they need to intervene quickly and make changes. Smooth data availability enables companies to react more quickly to changing market requirements and optimize production planning.

Networking also makes it easier to make forecasts. For example, you can plan ahead in production when raw materials run out or when a device needs to be repaired or similar. Of course, this also has an impact on your warehousing, as better forecasting data means you need less storage space or stock turnover in the warehouse can be much faster. The use of AI and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enables continuous data collection and analysis, which brings transparency to the performance of employees, processes and technologies.

As a supplying company, you can also use AI to optimize your transports, for example. Analyses can be carried out on optimal loads and the perfect time for delivery so that traffic jams or roadworks can be avoided. This allows transports to run faster and more smoothly. With this help, you can also better analyze customer behavior and thus better plan your order quantities. This in turn helps the warehouse and gives you a decisive market advantage.

What are the risks of introducing Industry 4.0. into your systems?

The greatest danger in all networked systems is always the IT security. This is the first and most important factor that you should look at beforehand. Your IT infrastructure must be structured in such a way that it can be expanded into networked systems. The volume of data is also important here, as considerably more sensitive data is stored than before.

Once you have resolved these two points, it is important that you protect your IT environment against attacks from the Internet. Greater networking and the use of IIoT devices also means that the Attack surface for cyber criminals grows. But you can also see the whole thing in a positive light, because the new environment can also help you to Cybersecurity to improve security. You can install sensors in your IT structure that can automatically detect anomalies and security risks and take appropriate countermeasures.

We offer solutions for the digitalization of production processes

At Zeitarbeit International, we offer solutions that many production companies around the world trust. Our company sees itself as a specialist and partner to the mechanical and plant engineering, automotive and supplier industries. Thanks to outstanding specialists, Engineersmodern technologies, reliability and high flexibility, we have been able to develop and implement automation projects worldwide for many years.

Our core topics in automation robotics include Constructionthe Plant and steel construction and the Installation of machines. We have more than 500 specialists with specific know-how for a variety of product and special solutions that you can use. The spectrum ranges from the design and manufacture of tools to complete automation systems.

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