Video: The Industry 4.0 Effect roundtable
Engineering360 News Desk | December 18, 2022Industry 4.0. Industrial internet of things, or IIoT. Smart manufacturing. The Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Those are buzzwords that get tossed around a lot these days, as one of the experts who took part in the series keenly observed: It’s something your boss’s boss hears about at a conference, then comes back and says “We’re going to do IoT.”
But if you’re an engineer, an engineering supervisor of plant manager, it’s your job to figure out what in the world that means. You can’t simply “deploy IoT.” But you can delve into some very specific tools that represent the fundamentals of the industrial IoT: things like smart sensors, testing and measurement, robotics and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.
In this compilation video, a gathering of experts from diverse backgrounds digs into each of those aspects and more, looking at the current state of smart industry and offering some insider knowledge about where things are headed. You’ll gain a broad overview of both recent advancements and ongoing challenges in the field, positioning you to help lead the way as your own company inevitably finds its way into the smart manufacturing space. And thanks to our “best of” approach, focusing on the most salient points in the series discussion, you’ll get there after investing just under an hour of your valuable time.