“The industrial machinery market segment is, by its nature, among the most advanced within the entire industrial market. The role of its manufacturers is to supply the vast majority of key systems for every production process (what we broadly term industrial machines or machinery), and their competitive strength highly and necessarily depends on their ability to master technology and innovation.”
“Italian manufacturers rank among the global market leaders (their added value, mostly exported, makes this a significant sector of the national economy). However, many still view the new requirements of their market as demands “yet to mature.” Crucially, too few have recognized how meeting these new demands actually represents a concrete and immediate opportunity for renewed competitiveness.
The evolution driven globally in the industry by new digital technologies (a precise evolution, even if often misunderstood in media discussions of “Industry 4.0”) has already concretely created new requirements for Industrial Machine Manufacturers – genuine new market expectations – which can be rigorously summarized in “technical” terms as follows:
NEW REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO THEIR PRODUCTS
Industrial machines will also evolve to become “resources (cyber-physical systems, CPS) interconnected with other resources both internal and external to the factory where they are installed;
NEW REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO THEIR ROLE
Machine manufacturers will also evolve to become “ecosystem entities interconnected with the other resources of the ecosystem, starting with ‘their’ machines – resources used by other entities within the ecosystem, their clients.”
These new requirements are framed within an evolutionary context where decision-making processes truly become “data-driven” – that is, based on information extractable from data analyzable in real-time as well as from historical series. This is an entirely natural mode of process optimization that has gained enormous competitive relevance with today’s technological capabilities for analytical processing of so-called Big Data and the interconnection of resources within an enterprise’s ecosystem. Machines and equipment used in production systems are the primary source of data usable for this purpose in the manufacturing sector.
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