Digitisation is inevitable

By OEM Update Editorial June 30, 2017 4:11 pm IST

Digitisation for Industry 4.0 or IoT is unavoidable if one wants to participate in global manufacturing chain.

Nitin Wakode, Associate Vice President PSG, Onward Technologies Ltd

Embracing next industrial revolution
We are in transition phase where global manufacturing is ready to embrace next industrial revolution i.e. Industry 4.0 or IoT. In some way or other digital manufacturing is started long back ever since CNC machines or computer controlled machines came in existence. Later DNC systems were deployed in order to manage data transfers from computer system to CNC machines or vice versa. In this era data was expected to be exchanged mostly in LAN or between two equipment. Today due to the large operations or possibility of carrying out different operations at different locations for some benefits it is expected to share information digitally of each and every activity.

According to Nitin Wakode, Associate Vice President PSG, Onward Technologies Ltd, “Digitisation for Industry 4.0 or IoT is unavoidable if one wants to participate in global manufacturing chain. Some of the pioneers in digital connectivity are GE, ABB, Honeywell, Siemens, Bosch, IBM of course Microsoft and cloud companies like Amazon. Apart from the core industry sector it involves transportation, security, government, smart cities, warehouse and supply chain management, healthcare and biotechnology and may be agriculture as well which is predicted as one of the major business opportunity next.”

Every manufacturing will go digital

Onward solutions digital manufacturing
Onward deals with most of the engineering software which varies from design, CAE simulation to digital manufacturing for CNC machines and robotics. All the CAD/CAM CAE products the company represents are also part of digitisation.

Onward’s automation team design systems which are Industry 4.0 compliant. The IoT is covering almost every sector in connectivity with more than 15 billion devices connected and expected to jump by 15 per cent to reach 20 billion soon. Which involve more than 200 million automotive, about 8 billion consumer devices, about 6 billion communication devices, more than 300 medical devices and about 3.6 billion equipment from industries. Innovative companies are adopting SMAC and IoT technologies to get competitive advantage and provide innovative customer experiences. Onward with its rich product engineering, ERP and IoT capabilities, is helping companies build connected products, processes and cities.

The company’s service offering include connected products, connected healthcare, digital manufacturing, remote monitoring, smart cities.