Adapt or be left behind in the Industry 4.0 revolution! Our white paper reveals six levers of technological change that can help bring your manufacturing operations into the 21^st century and beyond.

The production of the future will optimize itself continuously New IT technologies will help enterprises across all industries to master future challenges. Siemens is continuously integrating these technologies in its portfolio to offer the future of automation.

With the advent of Industry 4.0 manufacturers are faced with rapid innovation cycles, complex personalization requirements, and intensifying cost pressures in an expanding global landscape. To stay competitive companies will need to change the way they think about factory automation and adopt a new architecture that can meet the complexities and demands of the future.

As technology redefines our approach to factory automation, the experts at Frost & Sullivan have identified six levers of change that are driving this rapid transformation.

Artificial Intelligence that enables abilities like natural language processing; planning; image, object, and sound recognition; and problem-solving.

Augmented Reality that integrates digital information with the user’s physical environment.

Cognitive Engineering incorporating psychology and related practices to the design and operation of human-machine systems.

Autonomous Systems that can gain information about their environment, adapt, and independently make decisions based on reasoning.

Edge Computing to process data where it is being generated, instead of in a centralized data processing warehouse.

Blockchain transactions that are securely encrypted and replicated across many computers in multiple copies of a ledger.

These six levers of change have the promise to address the limitations of legacy infrastructure and generate value for the manufacturers that adopt them.

Today’s digital technologies are the core building blocks that will define factory automation in the future. Read our white paper: Reimagining Factory Automation: The Winds of Change to learn more.

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