Predictive maintenance, increasing output quantities and decreasing error rates – the performance promises of Industry 4.0 are great, although many users still doubt their feasibility: “It’s all a long way off,” as we often hear. At this point, we want to take a very practical look at this topic: At a major German automotive components supplier, IoT experts from EMAG, and their partner companies EXXETA, intuity, and anacision, have optimized a central production process – with amazing results, such as a significant increase in the production capacity of the EMAG line. A conversation with Andreas Kühne, lead data scientist at anacision, about the current successes of the associated EMAG EDNA technology, and how machine builders are comprehensively digitizing their machines.
