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Digital transformation is driving the shift towards Industry 4.0, enabling organizations to embrace next-gen technologies and optimize their operations. By integrating digital systems and technologies, such as analytics, AI, IoT, and automation, companies can enhance efficiency, agility, and customer engagement. This transformation requires a holistic approach, encompassing culture, talent, and strategic alignment. Embracing Industry 4.0 allows organizations to thrive in the digital era and capitalize on its opportunities. However, how should industrial digitalization be approached? Making the shift to a smarter factory is one lever for growth. How to approach the transformation of a traditional factory to a Smart Factory Steps to start the digitization process: 1. Learn the needs and objectives. Focus on processes and operations to detect areas for improvement in terms of efficiency and optimization. We will go into more detail on this point later. 2. Create a dynamic and multidisciplinary team to govern the Digital Transformation project. This group must be high performance, the profile to be incorporated into the team must meet some characteristics: innovative, agile, with an open mind to change, which seeks the most efficient and productive and collaborative. We want them to feel part of the cultural change and assume their role as digital leaders, as these people will be responsible for leading the company to this change and digital transformation. They will be in charge of evangelizing the message to other teams. 3. Corporate culture. Promote internally, through communication and training channels, the importance of digitalization and innovation as opportunities for professional and personal growth. Culture is the basis for a successful digital transformation process. The mission, vision, and values, as well as the customs, ideas, thoughts, relationships, that define a company, must evolve and transform with this change, being one of the biggest challenges. That said, we have to commit to getting involved in the change, giving way to leaders, betting on a more transversal strategy, communicating internally every step and offering staff technology and training to be able to adapt to the change, building a favorable environment. 4. Select the right partner to support you on this journey. We must be able to select our ideal partner with a defined strategy. This partner must have experience in technology consulting and digital transformation in the industrial sector. They should act as a catalyst of technologies and services to take our change from need to technology. In order to: Streamline processes Guarantee security Be more efficient Reduce costs Increase quality Create a roadmap Propose flexible, scalable and customized solutionsGarantizar seguridad ⚠️ It is critical for industrial digitalization to implement or reinforce specific Cybersecurity measures, manage them and improve them in order to maintain and increase their effectiveness against cyberattacks and their consequences. 5. "Try cheap, make mistakes early and scale fast" is an innovative method known as Lean method, which seeks to optimize the management and production processes of the company, using few resources in order to reduce investment, time and effort, being more efficient. It is known as Lean Manufacturing in the industrial sector, and it is applied by eliminating everything that hinders and makes production processes more expensive, achieving a more competitive final result due to the reduction in costs that it causes. Understanding the needs and objectives for industrial digitalization We will focus on the first point, from which a roadmap is drawn up to indicate where we are starting from and where we want to go: What needs do we have What objectives we want to achieve What technology do we need Which steps will be automated What information we need to collect the right data This roadmap is the result of a digital transformation consultancy, where the processes that make up the value chain are studied and are intended to be optimized with a digital transformation plan from the need to the technology, and not the other way around. These changes will always be approached with coherence to the situation in which the factory is, and the digitalization and automation standards indicated by the ISA-95. With this set of standards, businesses can connect industrial process control systems with their business control systems in order to optimize efficiency and coordination between raw materials received, production, and distribution, for example. The phases of an industrial digitalization consultancy? 1. Analysis. Consists of diagnosing and identifying points for improvement. This phase is carried out at the client's facilities, where an analysis will be made to know: the starting situation, processes, operations, level of technological maturity, etc. In this phase it is essential and vital the participation of all the interlocutors, previously identified by the client. 2. Definition and projection of the technology. During this phase, after the analysis made previously, the consultants will perform a technical office work. During this period, it is possible that short remote meetings may be required with the defined team to solve doubts or land concepts. The work performed in this step will be Map of processes and improvement points, RoadMap, etc. 3. Closing. This is the moment to present the results and conclusions, it is done in a meeting and the documentation will be delivered together with the process, technological and RoadMap maps made, as well as the guide of the next steps to start implementing the transformation. However, industrial consulting does not end here. After this first deployment, it is key to evaluate the results obtained and see what has worked and what can be further improved, which will be seen in the last step. 4. Support in the implementation. In the final phase of the transformation consultancy, the deployment of Smart Factory solutions and the incorporation of technologies to achieve the necessary changes are carried out. In addition, the results obtained are evaluated and areas for improvement are identified to continue optimizing the transformation process. It is essential to have a team of specialized consultants during this phase to provide support and advice throughout the entire transformation process. These consultants will work in close collaboration with the company's staff to monitor the solutions adopted and ensure that the objectives set are achieved. Conclusion Industrial digitalization has become an essential strategic priority to boost growth, efficiency, productivity, and resilience of industrial processes that requires a strategic approach and the support of specialized consultants. With the right partners, industrial sectors can achieve a successful transformation and make the most of the opportunities offered by digitization with the right support. Connectivity & IoT IA & Data Industrial digitalization: we share the keys at Advanced Factories April 20, 2023