SMT007 Magazine - March 2019English | True PDF | 130 Pages | 37.72 MB
Happy Holden will tell you that smart factories are nothing new. And Happy should know; he helped develop the smart factories of the 1970s and 1980s at Hewlett-Packard. No surprise then that Happy is right: components that make up the smart factory foundation are not new, at least not at a basic technological level. Factory automation still uses PLCs, sensors, robotics, etc.