Intelligent Welding Automation

Data is the engine that will drive adoption of Industry 4.0, an industrial revolution for automating production and producing better products. Yet several factors prevent manufacturers from fully exploiting operational data.

Traditional operational technology (OT) architectures tend to be monolithic and difficult to upgrade. And although today’s production machines generate terabyte-class volumes of IoT sensor data, it often remains siloed in non-standard formats. In addition, analytical insights require OT to be integrated with IT systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management. Manufacturers may lack personnel for this work.