Pot Holes on the Road to Manufacturings Digital Transformation

If you’ve attended any industrial automation conference in the last two years, you’ll note that there is one and only one theme: “The Digital Transformation promises to transform industries worldwide to achieve fully optimized and predictable asset performance. Manufacturers need to proceed with warp speed implementing it.” There is seemingly no other perspective and no other point of view on the Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Digitalization, Smart Manufacturing and all the other names for this impending transformation.

This article is going to examine four big questions that loom large over the Digital Transformation that is taking place in the manufacturing world and make some guesses as to its future.