On 15th April 2023, an online webinar on the latest tech trends in the automation industries was conducted, featuring Mr. R. Pavithran, a technical specialist at Bosch Global Software Technologies Coimbatore as the resource person. During the session, he spoke about the evolution of technology from industrial revolution 1.0 in 1800 to industrial revolution 2.0, which brought about mass production and assembly lines. In industrial 3.0 IT and computer technology are used to automate processes
4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) – Enhancing automation and connectivity with CPS. He also delved into industrial revolution 5.0, highlighting the emergence of human-robot collaboration, cognitive systems, and customization. Moreover, Mr. Pavithran discussed the cutting-edge technologies in industry 4.0, such as big data which is primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with higher complexit, autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human . Then he spoke about simulator which is used to create an application for a physical robot without depending on the physical machine, thus saving cost and time. In some case, such applications can be transferred onto a physical robot (or rebuilt) without modification. integration, IoT, then cybersecurity is protecting an organization and its employees and assets against cyber threats. As cyberattacks become more common and sophisticated and corporate networks grow more complex, a variety of cyber security solutions are required to mitigate corporate cyber risk., and then at last Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources. He also shed light on the concept of smart factories, which involve the replacement of humans with robots.Smart manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufacturing, high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, digital information technology, and more flexible technical workforce training. Other goals sometimes include fast changes in production levels based on demand, optimization of the supply chain, efficient production and recyclability. In this concept, as smart factory has interoperable systems, multi-scale dynamic modelling and simulation, intelligent automation, strong cyber security, and networked sensors.
