Simple Solutions That Work! Issue 11

68 PUSHKRAJ JANWADKAR CEO & Executive Director VERSATILE EQUIPMENT PVT LTD ARTICLE TAKEAWAYS: • Understanding the equipment needed to translate data to establish meaningful conclusions • Repetitive actions such as testing and registering data can be mechanized, reducing costs and increasing quality THE BAND WAGON We’ve been hearing and learning about it for quite a while now… Industry 4.0, IOT, haven’t we? Opinions are split with respect to whether there is anything new. Many also claim that it’s a farce created by electronics and software conglomerates since there haven’t been many break throughs to sell, the advent of Internet, e-mails, Amazon, the evolution of humans, and everything in between. We know it for a very long time that; Machines can communicate with each other. PLCs communicate with each other, PLCs communicate with PCs, and embedded systems communicate with PCs and PLCs. Essentially many digital testing devices or production devices and equipment have been communicating with each other since panel call indicators of the 1920s and automatic number identification of the 1940s. Even today when we are synching or uploading it to cloud simply means uploading it to a server (which is essentially a machine) sitting somewhere, through the Internet. So, IOT & 4.0, is it a ‘band wagon’ that we shouldn’t miss to hop on—or just another jargon? WHAT’S DIFFERENT NOW The Internet of Things (IOT) essentially lays the foundation for Industry 4.0 to come into reality. The critical piece that converts a simple machine to machine communicating to an IOT enabled and Industry 4.0 ready device network, is the network’s ability to converse with servers which are capable of AI & ML (Artificial Intelligence and IMPLEMENTATION OF INDUSTRY 4.0 IN TESTING & CONTROL OF SAND Fig 1: Evolution of Humans