Critical Manufacturing wins MESA’s Smart Story Awards

19th January 2017

Enaie Azambuja

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Whitepaper

A white paper by Critical Manufacturing, Manufacturing Software for Industry 4.0 - Embracing Change and Decentralisation, has been awarded the MESA’s Smart Story Award, which demonstrates that the technology may be considered a major challenge in achieving Industry 4.0 vision. MESA International launched 'Smart Story Awards' in May 2016 to promote the people and Information Technologies that are making manufacturing smarter: agile, sustainable, efficient.

MESA's Smart Story Awards created a single destination for professionals to get a full spectrum of case studies, white papers, articles and success stories about why and how to use manufacturing data to make smart decisions throughout a product's value chain.

The winning story, Manufacturing Software for Industry 4.0 - Embracing Change and Decentralisation by Critical Manufacturing, was determined by the most downloads over a 3-month period and it proved there is a big gap in understanding how technology can help manufacturers advance to the next industrial revolution.

Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO of Critical Manufacturing, said: “We are witnessing a technological race in the industry like never before. Big industrial countries are investing heavily in Industry 4.0, but companies sometimes get overwhelmed in understanding what data to collect and how to turn them into opportunities.

This white paper we created provides manufacturers with a good head start towards defining the solution which allows them to continuously evolve the Industry 4.0 plans on a complete, solid yet flexible base.”

The white paper from Critical Manufacturing can serve as a primer for those studying Industry 4.0 or those considering what their manufacturing software will need to do to support this vision.

The document outlines the requirements for software with specific details of what is needed to support decentralisation, vertical and horizontal integration, connectivity, sensing and mobile, cloud, and advanced analytics.