What is Industry 4.0?
Industry 4.0 (also known as the fourth industrial revolution) means the next phase in the digitalization of the manufacturing sector according to McKinsey. The term "Industrie 4.0", shortened to I4.0 or simply I4, originated in 2011 from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government, which
promotes the computerization of manufacturing.
Industry 4.0 is focused on fully automated production, no human operators, efficiency (making incremental improvements to save cost) and creates a great engagement process that can increase
value of a product.
How to optimize your company for Industry 4.0
The design process begins with understanding the concept and the technologies behind Industry 4.0 production. This step helps your production to mature gradually into a digital factory. Digitalisation is
a journey that can best be achieved when the organisation has the right level of knowledge, confidence and experience – and these are acquired in a timely way, ensuring all elements are in place before over-committing resources.
Without data collection, no data analysis. The second step towards a digital transformation is to collect data from your machines. Next, is about digitization the existing production tools. This can simplify your processes. Don't forget the predictive maintenance which means the ability to predict downtime and to prevent it before it happens.
Step 5 is about machine-to-machine communication and how machine can exchange knowledge on improving processes.
What is Thagora and how it can help your furniture company?
Thagora is a leather cutting system invented by Gemini CAD Systems that brings automation and efficiency for leather upholstery and leather car interiors manufacturing.
Advanced leather cutting technology
Thagora automates almost completely the leather cutting process for the furniture, automotive, aerospace and naval industries. It combines the most advanced software system, with Thagora Automatic Multi-Hide Leather Nesting solution and Thagora Leather Scanning Machine to achieve higher leather savings and productivity.
Mature and scalable technology
Thagora manages the Off-Line workflow, designed to squeeze performance from each area of the leather cutting process.
Thagora is compatible with any type of leather cutting solution: die-cutting presses, new or used CNC leather cutting machines, or manual leather cutting.
Thagora is a mature and scalable technology, deployed in many factories around the globe. The leather cutting system can be smoothly implemented, without disrupting your current production process.
Thagora saves time, money, is eco-friendly and gives value to your product
This software has futures that optimize your material consumption like the multi-hide nesting which saves materials and money just by setting a specific algorithm. Thagora can adapt to any characteristics and models bringing high quality and stable results. This future is also eco-friendly if
you think how much stuff people waste in capitalism.
More than that, the module can combine different models during nesting and comparing with the traditional providers, Thagora can update any time to new futures.
Even though the number of human operators can decrease because of this automatisation, the the level of specialization required for them is much lower.
Conclusion
Even though every innovation brings with them cynicism, we must not forget the main purpose of Industry 4.0: to find solutions to manufacturing issues and get it to the next level so it has a positive
impact on the industry as well as local economies.
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