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Z.magazine 2016
The 4th industrial revolution has begun, and is apparent in the increasing
number of networked manufacturing facilities leading us all towards the
smart factory—the self-managing factory. The factory must indeed be
“smart” because the bar is being raised ever higher, especially in the metal
cutting sector where pressures on time, costs, and quality are rising
continuously. The response is maximum flexibility that can only be achieved
by networking machines together including the tools they operate.
Z.magazine has tracked down the requirements to accomplish this.
READY FOR 4 .0
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