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Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor-Narayana Rao
Industry 4.0 Technologies Adoption - Guidelines for SMEs
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Information Regarding Industry 4.0 Initiatives of Top 50 Manufacturing Companies
Company Industry Revenue (Millions US Dollars)
1Mitsui Engineering 566,512 Japan
Mining meets Industry 4.0
West Angelas is one of the mines where Mitsui’s joint venture partner Rio Tinto is road-testing the deployment of the latest information technologies to extract minerals with greater safety and diminished environmental impacts.
At Rio Tinto’s Pilbara Operations Center, located in Perth (around 1,500 kilometers from the Pilbara itself), over 400 operators use real-time analytics and collaboration tools to optimize operations across Rio Tinto’s 17 mines, 4 ports and 1,700 kilometers of railway. Further innovative efforts include autonomous drilling systems (successfully trialed in West Angelas in 2008); autonomous haulage trucks for moving ore (also first trialed in West Angelas in 2008); and fully automated heavy-haul, long-distance railway systems (a world first).
Production is becoming smart. Industry 4.0 and the networked factory
The future has long been here: The digital transformation is changing the products as well as their production. Module for module, Mercedes-Benz is networking the entire automotive value chain – from design, through production, to sales and service. The fourth industrial revolution is accelerating more and more. The foundations for a completely connected “smart factory” are set. https://www.daimler.com/innovation/case/connectivity/industry-4-0.html
EXOR and NEXCOM Extends Partnership to Fulfill Industry 4.0’s Vision for Smart Manufacturing
To achieve Industry 4.0's vision for smart manufacturing, NEXCOM has proposed PC-based IoT Automation Solutions consisting of intelligence controllers, IoT automation gateways, and big data collectors. Under the partnership, NEXCOM expands its product portfolio to EXOR's virtualized human machine interface (HMI), a key element to Industry 4.0, offering all-round IoT Automation Solutions, EXOR extends its presence in Asia market and will grow JMobile platform to ensure global offering. http://www.nexcom.com/news/Detail/exor-and-nexcom-extends-partnership-to-fulfill-industry-4-0-s-vision-for-smart-manufacturing http://www.exorembedded.net/
6General Motors Automotive155,929 United States
General Motors’ Lake Orion plant uses the power of the industrial Internet of Things to analyze the work of 800 robots. These robots are connected to the cloud and operators have complete visibility of their operation and maintenance issues. The information helps to ensure maximum efficiency. http://www.industrial-ip.org/en/industrial-ip/internet-of-things/general-motors-harnesses-the-iiot
Industrie 4.0: The hour of implementation has arrived
Nuremberg, 2017-Nov-28
New MindSphere Version 3.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides access to Siemens APIs and AWS cloud services for faster development
Simotics IQ: New IoT concept for motors
New partnership financing service to boost the implementation of Industrie 4.0
Study affirms annual productivity increase due to digitalization of up to 9.8 percent https://www.siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/?press=/en/pressrelease/2017/corporate/pr2017110082coen.htm
13AppleElectronics108,249 United States
14ToyotaAutomotive105,364 Japan
15 Cardinal HealthPharmaceuticals102,644 United States
17BASFChemicals102,194 Germany
18HondaAutomotive100,664 Japan
19PanasonicEngineering, various99,373 Japan
20BMWAutomotive95,692 Germany
21ArcelorMittalSteel94,444 Luxembourg
22NestleFood & Beverages94,405 Switzerland
22EniOil & gas90,405 Italy
23PeugeotAutomotive83,305 France
24Procter & GambleConsumer goods82,559 United States
25SonyElectronics82,237 Japan
26ToshibaEngineering, various77,261 Japan
26EnelRenewable energy75,405 Italy
27BoschEngineering, various71,600 Germany
28SinochemChemicals70,990 China
29MitsubishiEngineering, various70,492 Japan
30Hyundai Motor CompanyAutomotive70,227 South Korea
31ThyssenKruppSteel68,791 Germany
32BoeingAerospace & Defense68,735 United States
33AirbusAerospace & Defense68,310 Netherlands
34PfizerPharmaceuticals67,932 United States
35SAIC MotorAutomotive67,255 China
37PepsiCoFood & Beverages66,504 United States
38Johnson & JohnsonPersonal care products65,030 United States
39UnileverConsumer goods64,610 Netherlands
40Dongfeng Motor GroupAutomotive62,911 China
41POSCOSteel62,230 South Korea
42DellElectronics62,071 United States
43CaterpillarConstruction equipment60,138 United States
44Dow ChemicalChemicals59,985 United States
45NovartisPharmaceuticals59,375 Switzerland
46RenaultAutomotive59,272 France
47Saint-GobainBuilding materials58,560 France
48United TechnologiesEngineering, various58,190 United States
49FAW GroupAutomotive57,003 China
50FujitsuElectronics56,582 Japan
51China MinmetalsMetals54,509 China
Industrial Engineering 4.0 was proposed as a parallel development in Industrial Engineering to take care of productivity of engineering (production) systems in the era of Industry 4.0 Technology Set by Prof. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao (Professor, National Institute of Industrial Engineering). Subsequent to the development of the idea, the Google search revealed that the term was already coined and used in Germany in 2016. But the digital content available on the topic has not provided enough explanation of Industrial Engineering 4.0. A project was initiated by Prof. Rao to elaborate the subject content of Industrial Engineering 4.0. The prime objective of Industrial Engineering 4.0 is to make connected engineering systems more productive.
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Prime Objective of Industrial Engineering 4.0
Making Connected Engineering Systems More Productive
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You can see reference to Industrial Engineering 4.0 in the following announcement about a seminar on 28 November 2017 in Germany.
Lecture event of the Friends of Industry 4.0
On Tuesday, 28. November 2017, at 19:30 clock we would like to cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Köbler, Professor of Industrial Production Technology, Digital Factory, Production Organization and Production Planning at the Faculty of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg invite to the Aula of the Gewerbliche Schule Lahr.
Companies have to constantly increase their productivity due to high competitive pressure. One area that is constantly increasing is industrial engineering. Especially in the course of digitization and networking of corporate processes, the lecture sheds light on how Industry 4.0 affects industrial engineering. The approach is to design an Industrial Engineering 4.0 that combines the advances of Industry 4.0 and the digital factory. In detail, the visions and basic requirements of Industrie 4.0, the change to product-oriented production planning and the gradual networking in the company are presented. Furthermore, Prof. Köbler talks about model platforms of Industry 4.0, new ways of information-driven production and the transformation from a conventional to a digital production company.
We would be pleased to welcome you at the event as guests at the Gewerbliche Schule Lahr. Admission is free. A donation in favor of the school partnership with Alajuela / Costa Rica is requested. I would be very grateful if you would forward the invitation to other interested people.
Sincerely, Bernd Wiedmann
Principal of the GS Lahr and managing director of the association
This book presents the results of discussions and presentation from the latest ISDT event (2014) which was dedicated to the 94th birthday anniversary of Prof. Lotfi A. Zade, father of Fuzzy logic. The book consists of three main chapters, namely:
Chapter 1: Integrated Systems Design
Chapter 2: Knowledge, Competence and Business Process Management
Chapter 3: Integrated Systems Technologies
Each article presents novel and scientific research results with respect to the target goal of improving our common understanding of KT integration. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sJy1BwAAQBAJ
Product Lifecycle Management for a Global Market: 11th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2014, Yokohama, Japan, July 7-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Shuichi Fukuda, Alain Bernard, Balan Gurumoorthy, Abdelaziz Bouras
Springer, 17-Dec-2014 - Business & Economics - 520 pages
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2014, held in Yokohama, Japan, in July 2014. The 51 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: BIM operations, maintenance, and renovation; BIM concepts and lifecycle management; design and education; naval engineering and shipbuilding; aeronautical and automotive engineering; industry and consumer products; interoperability, integration, configuration, systems engineering; change management and maturity; knowledge engineering; knowledge management; service and manufacturing; and new PLM. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=0_rfBQAAQBAJ
Product Productivity Engineering - Definition and Explanation
Developing and Designing products that promise higher productivity in processes at the user end is product productivity engineering. (Narayana Rao K.V.S.S., 22 December 2017)
(IISE Linkedin Group Topic: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/75670/75670-6349880422469603328)
Examples of High Productivity Equipment and Machines
CNC Lathe for High-Productivity Vertical Turning of Flange-Type Workpieces
Okuma’s new 2SP-2500H CNC lathe featuring smart machine productivity
24 October, 2017
Okuma has launched the 2SP-2500H two-spindle CNC lathe, with innovative front-facing twin spindles to provide much higher levels of productivity and far greater reliability, for auto parts and other mass production applications. The 2SP-2500H is an automation-ready machine that integrates two lathes into one unit with a standard loader that feeds blanks for continuous front and back work. https://www.cnctimes.com/editorial/okumas-new-2sp-2500h-cnc-lathe-featuring-smart-machine-productivity
In industrial engineering, product productivity engineering has to develop as an area of practice. Industrial engineers focus on increasing the productivity of processes and in that process identify improvements in machines and equipment that increase the productivity of the process under evaluation. This knowledge can be used in the development and design stages of machines and equipment. Hence within the industrial engineering profession, product productivity engineers and process productivity engineers can interact and exchange ideas and take up new development and design projects to create machines and equipment that provide higher productivity.
More Examples of High Productivity Equipment and Machines
Innovative, High Productivity Fiber Laser Tube Cutting
TruLaser Tube 5000 fiber laser tube cutting machine from TRUMPF is the world’s first tube cutting machine with a solid-state laser to eliminate the need for a fully enclosed housing, making it quick and easy to load individual tubes and profiles or to remove finished parts while the machine is in operation.
December 30, 2017 http://www.fabricatingandmetalworking.com/2017/12/innovative-high-productivity-fiber-laser-tube-cutting/
The W 250 from Wirtgen: world class in performance and productivity
The strength of the W 250 lies in its ability to mill large job sites on motorways or airports at top speed. The Wirtgen large milling machine can remove asphalt layers with a milling depth of up to 350 mm and hard concrete surfaces at a high advance rate. In addition to removing complete roadway sections in a single pass, individual layers can also be removed extremely economically. https://www.wirtgen.de/en/news-media/press-releases/article_detail.2567.php
HyperSync™ - eIMC™ in-mold closing technology – up to 20% improvement in productivity 2016
All-new high-performance, fully integrated system for specialty closure manufacturing -The HyperSync™
HyperSync™ uses the revolutionary new eIMC™ in-mold closing technology. This servo-driven technology allows for the safe overlapping of mold functions, providing precise, controlled closing of flip-top closures while still in the warm position. The speed of closing is carefully controlled, allowing for quick closing movements with precision; this ensures the fastest closing speed while maintaining the ideal force required and ensuring optimal part quality. The use of eIMC™ in-mold closing technology provides up to 20% increase in productivity, with nearly two seconds saved per cycle depending on the application. http://www.husky.co/News.aspx?id=6442451075
High Productivity Machines - Marketing Advantage
High productivity machines have marketing advantages. They are rationally desirable and hence demand exists for high productivity machines. There is also the communication advantage. You can advertise high productivity machines, get immediate sales and also create brand value. Your company will be associated with innovativeness and high productivity. Whenever, machines are being replaced buyers look at your catalogues and include your company in the product request notifications.
