JUNE 20238MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSIN MY OPINIONThe concepts defining Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, which are synonymous, date back to at least 2006 and then evolved rapidly through 2011 when a handful of technological evolutions converged with sufficient maturity to transform manufacturing in revolutionary ways. Today, Industry 4.0 is not only a common term in the industry but is typically well understood by business technology leaders as part of the lexicon throughout C-Suites of most manufacturing companies. Industry 4.0 became ubiquitous even as individual technologies and integration of those technologies still evolving rapidly. At Raytheon Intelligence & Space, this adoption is exemplified by the establishment of corporate operations organization explicitly named Industry 4.0. In the U.S., national public-private partnership organizations, such as CESMII (Clean Energy National Smart Manufacturing Institute), ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing), and MxD, representing Digital Manufacturing & Design, have been working to `democratize' cyber-physical automated systems for industry, and substantially reduce their time to value for use in manufacturing small and medium business and large companies alike. Relative to `cyber-physical', cyber is the digital domain (data, controls, models, etc.) and the physical directly manipulate the material world to realize By Kelly Dodds, Sr. Director & Advanced Manufacturing Tech Director, Advanced Manufacturing, Modernization & Technology, Raytheon Intelligence & SpaceSMART MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRY 4.0Kelly Dodds
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