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TECH INNOVATION
#SOM TECHNOLOGY

How Component Manufacturers

Use SOM Technology to Implement

Industrie 4.0

upply chains send out inventory Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial assemblies, sensors, and so on, are the
requests. Machines autonomously intelligence, and industrial cloud are some primary activities of manufacturers. The
Srequest spare parts while of the concepts driving the adoption of production processes are still being
manufacturing systems autonomously Industrie 4.0 business models. The roles executed using legacy equipment and
manage production life cycles. they play ensure that legacy equipment assembly tools such as lathes or CNC
These are now common scenarios produces data, and Open Platform machines and, in some cases, assembly
due to the adoption of Industrie 4.0 Communications Unified Architecture is done by hand using manual tools.
business models. Today, component (OPC UA) standards can be adopted It is difficult to collect data from these
manufacturers are integrating in any facility. With the aid of these manual manufacturing and assembling
Industrie 4.0 in the deepest levels of emerging technologies, Industrie 4.0 is set processes when automation and
manufacturing shop floors through to be a $155 billion industry by 2024. implementing Industrie 4.0 business
embedded systems such as system on In the component manufacturing models are the goals. This is where
module (SOM) technology. industrial niche, the production of metal embedded technologies such as SOM
SOM technology alongside the and plastic components such as tube come into play.

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