Digital Innovation and industry 4.0
Crossing the new frontier of digital organisations
course code 2.2
What is the course for
#1
Providing a general overview of Industry 4.0 in an Italian and European context, with analyses deriving from the current regulatory framework and the changes already put into effect in several cases
#2
Understanding the potential of digitisation in various business areas
#3
Understanding the possible synergies both up and downstream from the factory: building new and effective links to customers and suppliers
INDUSTRY 4.0 is spoken about a lot, but few companies are learning to exploit the real potential inherent in this revolution. We are in an historic period of profound transformation. The increased volatility of the markets, the speed of ongoing changes and the growth of uncertainty throughout the value chain for both customers and suppliers are among the major challenges we face today. These are risks we can face thanks to the ability to innovate products, processes and organisations quickly while at the same time utilising complex digital technologies that can simplify, streamline, and improve business processes. The real-time networking of people and machines is, for example, just one of the opportunities offered by the so-called INDUSTRY 4.0, enabling productive systems to be managed more reactively and intelligently.
The ability to manage, in real-time, data in quantities that up until a few years ago were unimaginable, the constant cost reduction of technological components that were previously unaffordable for ordinary use, together with the ease of integrating devices represent an approach that can increase the competitiveness of businesses at all stages of the product and process life cycle.
In particular, this will bring great benefits, beginning with the product development phases with advanced forms of customer engagement and virtual models that dramatically reduce experimentation with physical prototypes, also reducing the time-to-market and the risk of error.
Goals
- Providing a general overview of Industry 4.0 in an Italian and European context, with analyses deriving from the current regulatory framework and the changes already put into effect in several cases
- Understanding the potential of digitisation in various business areas
- Understanding the possible consequences on the company’s operational area: the Smart Factory
- Understanding the possible synergies both up and downstream from the factory: building new and effective links to customers and suppliers
- Learn the key operating tools to start an autonomous development journey in the transition to a digital factory
Addressed to
- Entrepreneurs
- CEOs
- General management, Business Unit managers
- Sales management
- Marketing management
- Technical directors, R&D managers
Contents
Cyber-Physical Systems and markets
- Overview of the potential drivers for innovation
- New frontiers in IT systems and computer networks
- Communication and interconnection technologies both in and outside factories
- Internet of Things (IoT): what is it, what technologies it uses, what are its benefits
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Smart Factories and networks
Organisation 4.0
- The evolution of roles in a Smart Factory
- The new skills required at both the operational and managerial level
- The possible new forms of organisation 4.0
- The relationship between Industry 4.0 and Lean Manufacturing
- Creating a Smart Factory
Big data
- Cloud computing and its impact on the traditional business landscape
- New frontiers in storing, interpreting and sharing data
- Big data and the evolution of business management
- Big data and the evolution of the supply chain
- Big data and the evolution of marketing
Technological aspects of Industry 4.0
- Smart robots and new machines
- Self-learning systems, neural networks
- Microchips and next generation sensors
- Nanotechnology
Product development and industrialisation in the digital age
- New frontiers in design and virtual product and process simulation
- New forms of connection between design, simulation and production machines
- New frontiers in additive processes: 3D printing, laser sintering, fused deposition modelling, etc.
You will experience
- How to orient the organisation towards a digital business model
- How to derive concrete benefits from Industry 4.0
- How to calculate the costs and benefits of a 4.0 initiative