How does the SIF-400 , the training system for Industry 4.0 , work ?
How does the SIF-400 , the training system for Industry 4.0 , work ?
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279 viewed through the lens of what they mean to the culture or to the value we provide .”
From a technological standpoint , Loggins notes automation as one of the key and recent elements of the transformation . “ SMC ’ s bread and butter is making components that allow other manufacturers to automate their processes . Despite that , a lot of our back-end , knowledgebased processes are still very manual , time consuming and require large systems to complete the work at scale . As we grew , those processes could only be scaled by adding more people .” The introduction of robotic process automation ( RPA ) began in Europe under Loggins ’ leadership , and is now being implemented for the US operations as well . “ The cool thing , especially from an agile cultural standpoint , is that we ’ re not leading it , the other areas of the business are . They ’ re assessing the processes they want to be automated while we provide the guidance and solutions for them to conduct their own system development and do what they need to do .” businesschief . com