Leaders in Industry 4.0 applications already in the early 1990s, we are still committed to research and development as a way to offer customers smart factory solutions based on integrated systems capable of responding to future needs.
The concept of Industry 4.0 has by now entered the consciousness of businessmen all over the world, and not just on a macro level. Large manufacturers and small to medium companies are investing more and more resources in the implementation of digital technologies and the optimization of production processes inside and outside the factory.
Investments are generally aimed at improving efficiency and safety, a result that can easily be achieved by interconnecting resources and managing them more intelligently.
E80 Group developed a smart factory with laser guided vehicles back in the 1990s, a full two decades before the concept of Industry 4.0 gained popularity on a global scale.
Over the years, E80 Group has never stopped improving and perfecting solutions for smart, interconnected and digitalized factories capable of satisfying the market's most challenging requirements. Thanks to innovative technologies, the careful analysis of customers' logistic processes and strategic partnerships, E80 is now able to manage every activity in the supply chain and ensure a significant improvement in efficiency and the total traceability of handled products.
The main challenge facing on today's international market is to develop fully integrated systems in which all production hardware is controlled centrally by a single software platform.
E80 Group SM.I.LE80 (Smart Integrated Logistics) proprietary software platform is able to serve and transfer data in all phases of production, from the reception of raw materials through to warehousing and shipment. This powerful and constantly improving tool guarantees flexible, rapid and customized solutions even to future needs of customers.
As Gabriele Grassi pointed out during FANUC's Open House event early in 2019, the real challenge is not to become Industry 4.0 compliant but to remain compliant over time. “We need to become accustomed to change and invest in skills and training if we are to use technological innovations to improve flexibility, now, and in the future”.
E80 Group see Industry 4.0 not just as a set of tools and skills, but as a complex and constantly changing model of production in which the development of advanced technologies is the consequence of a long process of listening to customers and searching for best practices to put in place.
Paradoxically, while it exploits the latest developments in mechatronics and digital technology, this rigorous approach actually places man once again in control, giving him the ability to improve the quality of work and productivity as part of a long-term, sustainable vision of manufacturing.
Learn more about E80 Group systems and solutions developed to improve supply chain management and transform industry towards 4.0.