For the plastics industry, industrial 4.0 is not new players before the release of the latest industrial revolution embarked on a high-tech production and automation.
New industrial revolution has hit the global industry, plastics industry are included. "Industrial 4.0" or 4.0 industry refers to the fourth industrial revolution and Germany's high-tech strategy of the Government, stems, the computer manufacturing sector.
First exhibition in Hanover in 2011, industry 4.0 expected enhancement of European industry with another 550 billion € competitiveness, income in the next five year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study found. Switching to 4.0, investment costs will be high, in 140€ 1 billion per year until 2020 more than policy is considered to be 2.6%, leading 3.3% annual average efficiency and lower the cost of income growth.
4.0 related ' industries of the Internet ", or digital, and the industrial process automation deployment. In this context, vertical and horizontal value chains are integrated with humans, machines and systems for real-time, highly automated system connections. Industrial 4.0 is the object of all network-related technologies, services, and data networks. The purpose of this integration is to improve production, can provide customers with customer requirements quickly and effectively respond to the overall objective.
PWC research found, into transformation of industrial enterprises in value chains across Europe will be 140€ 1 billion per year, until after 2020, the digital value chain, these huge investments, survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers will see too much to turn them into an "industrial 4.0" standards in the next five years. Information and communication companies now are all the digital 27% and 80% by 2020, electronic and electrical systems will see their value chain the greatest digital, 89%, by 2020 according to the size of the company, the larger company has revenue of more than 5 billion € will see the largest increase, to 92%. The industry average by 2020 is 83%.
Transformation industry 4.0 is an ideal way to production, in which each aspect or component based on the model of the Internet, to enable flexibility, efficiency and productivity of a high-level operation on "intelligent plant" networking. A computer system and production data recording, and achieve appropriately in order to control the production process. This can improve the company's efficiency, and reduce costs.
For the plastics industry, industrial 4.0 is not new players before the release of the latest industrial revolution embarked on a high-tech production and automation. "Intelligent manufacturing" has become a buzzword, and a growing number of companies have been moving towards this goal through innovation and introducing, through digitization and automation technologies to increase overall production efficiency.