The Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, is the era of digitalization. The term itself was coined at Hannover Messe 2011 and was included as an important component into the German government's high-tech strategy. Two years later, the Industry 4.0 Platform set up by the Bitkom digital association, the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI) and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) took up its work. The Industry 4.0 Platform is the central network for national and international activities concerning digital transformation in Germany.



The buzzwords "Digitization" and "Industry 4.0" stand, simply said, for the networking of machines and processes with information and communication technologies that transmit and process large amounts of data at high speed. A key role here is played by the internet. The "Forum Industrie 4.0" organized by the German Engineering Federation VDMA explains on its homepage that digitalization will affect and shape all sectors of industry. The forum, in which the national foundry industry is represented by the VDMA/BDG working group “Gießerei 4.0” (Foundry 4.0), offers publications also in English on Industry 4.0 and points out that the one right solution does not exist: “Be it a revolution or an evolutionary process – each and every company must find its path to Industry 4.0” .

Thus, also die casting foundries are faced with the question of which digitization activities make individual sense in order to work more cost-efficiently, to remain competitive and to be able to offer new services and added values.

Different digitization activities enable die casting foundries to make their working processes more efficient with respect to costs and productivity. Moreover, die casting foundries can exploit the obtained data and thus open up further business fields.

Digitization of Production

(source:plm.automation.siemens.com)
 

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