Controlling electricity and water consumption Zemsania group attended last March 17 to the Executive Forum Industry 4.0 Day in Madrid. The event was a fantastic opportunity to learn about the state of the fourth revolution of the Industry in our country and to share the experience and knowledge of Zemsania Group with the rest of the attending companies, Software AG and ITP.
Begoña Cristeto presents the conference
Begoña Cristeto, secretary general of Industry for small and medium-sized enterprises, opened the conference and introduced the attendees to the technological revolution represented by Industry 4.0, which he defined as “Smart, connected and collaborative.”. Begoña stressed that we are at a key moment in the economy, where decisions mark the future of companies. She spoke of the opportunities that this Industry brings us, with special emphasis on those that will affect Spain: the jobs that digitalization will create in the next 5 years and the increase in gross value added. He assured that «all companies should analyze what digitization means for their value chain and that the administrations have to facilitate this process».
In the following video you can watch Begoña Cristeto's presentation:
Cultural change in Industry 4.0
Mario Velando, Industry Consultant and one of the representatives of the Zemsania group at the event, highlighted that Industry 4.0 is also a cultural change that has to help us look for new roles, increase productivity and knowledge development. “It is not a question of buying technology for the sake of buying it, it is necessary to know what we want it for and how we are going to use it.” he stated. He also stressed the importance of taking industrial optimization towards this new 4.0 perspective step by step, analyzing data in real time and learning from it. Next, Roberto Paredes, Machine Learning CTO at Zemsania, spoke about the importance of building predictive models in the industry and presented several success stories applied to industrial maintenance, bank fraud detection and price prediction for a large supermarket.
You can watch the complete presentation of Mario Velando and Roberto Paredes in these videos:
The event also featured the presentation of Enrique Bertrand, technical director of Software AG, who spoke about the role of software in Industry 4.0. Also participating was Plácido Márquez, from ITP, The main focus of his presentation was to show a success case of 4.0 applications in the engine life cycle. Below, you can watch their presentations in these videos:
After the presentations of all the participants, an interesting round table was held where all the doubts that the attendees had were solved and where they reflected on the present and future of Industry 4.0: how it will affect employment, living with robots or the effects on the economy and society.
Executive Forum periodically holds Computer Breakfasts and Business Conferences. In addition to the latter, which the Zemsania group has attended, others have also been held on the following topics Smart Mobility, Big Data and IoT. We invite you to learn about upcoming Exeforum events that will surely contribute to business knowledge about these technologies.