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Industry 4.0. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. The smart factory. Call the concept whatever you want, the core goal remains the same. You're talking about an era when manufacturing organizations embrace big data and automation to such a degree that improvements in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility are a forgone conclusion. According to one recent study , the global smart factory market size is anticipated to hit an enormous $321 billion by as soon as 2032. The last few years have taught us that manufacturers need to better prepare themselves for some of life's bigger challenges and an investment in digital transformation is going to be a big part of how they do it. Of course, that demands the question - just how big does that investment have to be? Do you have to tear down your current factory and build an entirely new one from the ground up to take advantage of all the benefits that a smart factory can bring with it? Not exactly. In fact, you may already be...

It doesn't matter what type of manufacturing you're talking about - we all know the pain that comes with having an essential machine suddenly fail without a clear reason why. One minute, your people and your assembly lines are moving exactly as they should be. The next minute, everything comes to a screeching halt and every second that ticks by has a dollar value attached to it. Tracking machine downtime doesn't just alert you to these issues quickly so you can do something about them. It also helps prevent them from happening again in the future. In fact, this has become so popular (and ubiquitous) over the years that it's contributing to major growth in the larger predictive maintenance market around the world. The Power of Predictive Maintenance: An Overview According to one recent study , the global predictive maintenance market grew to an enormous $5.5 billion inv alue in 2022. That's a leap of about 11% from just one year prior. More impressively, that g...