What do the 9 pillars of Industry 4.0 mean to us in the manufacturing field, or to any other field for that matter? The Fourth Industrial Revolution like its predecessors before 1IR – Water and Steam Power Engine (1784); 2IR – Mass Production using Electrical Energy (1870); 3IR – Use of PLC and IT systems for Automatio
To compete in a global market, no organisation will tolerate losses. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is such a performance metric which will indicate a performance rate with very simple calculations. It considers all-important measures of productivity (1). Chandrajit P Ahire & Anand S Relkar, KK Wagh Institut
There is always fear of skills obsolescence especially amongst us humans when a new technology ushers in change. We have in fact an inherent fear of change. We are objects of comfort. We are pilgrims of Nirvana, although many of us never get there. Although the ushering of robotics and its attendant machine automation
The next wave of an industrial revolution is the so called 4th Industrial revolution or digital industrial revolution. Like its predecessors before, it is unstoppable, the proverbial tsunami. The main drivers of the 4IR revolution within South African government are the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry[1] and the