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CoroMill MS20 - Trends in manufacturing
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Trends in manufacturing
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So if I look at the biggest challenges within digitalization, I think what I see when I'm out, the biggest challenge is how do you get going? It tends to become very big when you start. My recommendation there is to really start small, build on certain things and then you scale across. Automation and digitalization are very close to each other. You need the digitalization in order to measure what you want to accomplish and then you use the automation in order to do it as efficiently and effectively as you can. When you start to measure and you get data points, you can really identify your bottlenecks. So for me, the digitalization and the capturing of data, I think the biggest advantage there is to get control. So in a more automated, digitalized world that becomes more complex, you need to surround yourself with partners because you are not able to solve all the problems yourself. The major trend we see in metal cutting is a need to be able to provide more innovative solutions that allow our customers to be flexible and competitive in a fast changing global market. We talk a lot about the digital twin. As an example, you might use your production system in a digital environment to drive decisions towards the right machine investment. In a fully sort of digitalized and fully automated and modern world, you simulate the process first and then you make the the buying decisions. the digitalization of the industry 4.0 transition. We are ready to guide our customers in this new challenge. For the customers, the interconnection between man and machine made it necessary to have a supplier to help him deal with this important change. Sustainability, I think the most important aspect of sustainability, if we aren't finding ways of being sustainable, there will be no business in the future. So I think to take a holistic view on sustainability is more important than the details. The knowledge we see needed for the future is to transfer skills to the new generation, through support and continuous training, using new technologies, work in a team, stay updated on the new software opportunities we will have available for data management and analysis. New technologies, I think it comes in a lot of different shapes and forms in our industry today. It's everything from creating competitive advantage, you know, outwards towards the customer. But we also see a lot of innovations towards quality inspections, automation and also getting, you know, overall control of what you do, leveraging all the data that goes through a production facility. You need to surround yourself with different type of expertise because it's impossible to build that watch alone. So that is, I think, why partnership and collaboration becomes very, very important. Those that are setting themselves up for those type of complex situations, I think, will be the winners of the future in machining.