Textile Industry – From Surviving to Thriving
An Exclusive tête-à-tête with Dr. K.V.Srinivasan by D.K.Karthikeyan, Editorial Director - INDUSTRY 4.0. Over the years you have championed the cause of textile manufacturers, and with this journey you have taken many new responsibilities. But this journey has started from PSG College of Technology. Could you please tell us the impact PSG made in your career? I started my textile technical education in 1983 by...
INDUSTRY 4.0 – The Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Industry 4.0 as a manufacturing movement is reshaping the business of building products. Fueled by unparalleled machine intelligence and connectivity, industry 4.0 introduces Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT on the Assembly floor. Our modern manufacturing efforts are driving advancements in industry 4.0, bringing greater efficiency, quality and sustainability to the manufacturing process. The shift to smart factories is already well underway....
As a Customer Why Should I Buy from You?
This article deals with fundamental of business for having competitive advantage in VUCA World enabling growth with an aim to inspire organizations with sense of purpose. We are not living in monopolistic era. The world has moved from “Closed Economy” to “Open Economy” with Oligopoly. All of the countries and Economic Entities are bound by World Trade Agreement and its...
Digitalization in STEEL Industry
How a leading rebar manufacturer used Digitalization and Industry 4.0 Technologies to implement Material Traceability and Product Genealogy solution Overview This case study is of a leading Rebar manufacturers in secondary steel industry well known for its related product brand. It was looking for a solution that will help them digitalize the process of converting their raw material into finished product...
CODISSIA Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre (CDIIC)
CODISSIA – Parent Organisation of CDIIC CODISSIA - The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association - is one of the largest Association for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India, having come a long way since its inception in the year 1969, with about 40 members, today CODISSIA is having more than 6600 members from different sectors. CODISSIA is celebrating its...
Opportunities & Challenges for SME
Opportunities & Challenges for SME in the Indian Defence Manufacturing Sector The Editorial Team at www.industry40.com spoke to the security experts on strategic defence issues to find out their perspectives on opportunities for SMEs / MSMEs in the defence manufacturing sector. The whole article is derived based on a detailed analysis of the opportunities in defence manufacturing. An overview : Given the...
Zyngo – Delivering a better tomorrow
The world of automobiles has seen unprecedented transformation in the last decade. Coupled with environmental sustainability in purview, policy makers and producers have both come on the same page to develop an electronic breed that switches the entire industry from internal combustion to electric power, reducing tailpipe emissions and eradicating significant carbon trails. With a contemporary approach intertwined with a...
Economic slowdown and it’s impact
Good news first ! I’m going to spare our readers, by not mentioning about how and where the Covid originated, how it spread, the statistics of fatalities across the globe etc. Millions of bytes are being written all over the World about the economic slow-down and the consequences people are facing as well. Still, am writing this section from the point...
Major Barriers in Using Industry 4.0 implementation
Keeping in mind the worldwide evolutionary stage of Industry 4.0, this article is prepared with a view to discuss the shortcomings and decision-making in Industry 4.0 implementation. Also, the editorial team at www.industry4o.com spoke to the industry experts to find out their views and perceptions on the barriers to use Industry 4.0. The article seeks to present facts on...
Scale up Digitally
“Scale up Digitally” – A Smart move for Rubber Industries. As the industries are moving towards the fourth industrial revolution which is heavily focusing on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence known as Industry 4.0. It has become imperative for the Indian Rubber manufacturers to lead the global competition by integrating the software into the manufacturing. Allowing the software...
5G – An Ally For Industry 4.0?
The editorial team at www.industry4o.com, spoke to experts and leaders across the manufacturing sector to solicit their views on the possibility of 5G enabling industry4.0. Based on the perspectives of industry leaders and technology experts, the viewpoints in the article are aimed at highlighting the benefits and flexibility of 5G what it offers for the Industry4.0. Our focus was...
Industry 4.0 & Fundamentals of Manufacturing Ecosystem
“Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is bringing about a paradigm shift that will profoundly change the way we work, live and interact and will affect industrialized as well as industrializing economies alike.” LI YONG, Director General of UNIDO More than 90% of CXOs have no idea of requirement of Industry 4.0 and risks associated with it.... Mere adopting...
Disruptive Technology
Disruptive Technology : A True Dimension of Change in the offing "Brands fading into oblivion" has become a watch word. For some big Fortune 500 companies going bankrupt for the simple reason that they could not cope up with the frenetic pace of change for the better. Wrong business models being persisted with and being the cardinal reason for their...
MSME Ecosystem
The 360Degree View of the Thought Process for the MSME Ecosystem 2020 will be remembered for ever. COVID happens to us and will continue to do so in 2021, perhaps in different measure. MSMEs are faced with a revenue loss of 15%-60%, credit gap of ~US$ 400 Bn, NPAs between 15% and 45% and GDP contraction between a fourth and...
Revolutionising Industry 4.0 with Human Resources
The Transition From a labour-focussed function, to a more talent-management one, the human resources function has undergone massive transformation since its inception about two decades back, post Globalisation in 1991. From what was a labour-focussed, union-driven IR-led function, the modern-day HR has come a long way to become the strategic people’s function that it is now. Since its inception about two...
Beating China with Industry 4.0
Understanding the Chinese economic fault line The Business of Govt is not business but to facilitate business. But when govt indulges in Business it has its serious & devastating impact. Understanding Chinese economic model is important to derive strategy not to fall into trap again and stand up to fight. The economic wisdom is rooted in a profound understanding of the...
Strategies in the New Normal ! Survival !
The editorial team at www.industry4o.com, spoke to experts and leaders across manufacturing to identify methods to help small manufacturers get past the crisis. The old school of putting it on a white board all the ideas that came in and then using available data along with economic indicator was the basis of this article. Our focus was to identify...
Industry 4.0 – India’s second big opportunity
The announcement of the “Atmanirbhar” mission by the Government of India and the general inclination in India as well as countries like USA, UK, Japan and Australia to minimise China’s role in future supply chains opens up and enormous opportunity for Indian SMEs. But to do that – in electronics, chemicals, pharma and all aspects of manufacturing, Indian SMEs...
Industry Leaders
Industry 4.0: Adding capabilities Industry Leaders need to Re-incarnate The World is drowning in data but lacks in Economic Wisdom India and its manpower is at the center stage of the world. It’s not a predicament, but it is the source of hope to the so called ‘aging’ developed nations. With an expected population of 1.52 billion by 2036, 67% of which would be...
Intelligent Automation – In Its Early Teens
A Netlabs Global Point of View Automation of business processes and activities (not to be confused with the ones associated in Manufacturing and Logistics like assembly line, physical Robots, etc.) per se is not a new concept. Software-led automation started with the Materials Resource Planning (MRP) concepts in late 1980s. From thereon, it spread its tentacles to encompass/integrate a variety...
