Digital Transformation in Productive Environments, Do We Have a Plan?
The challenge we face is not to transfer all the paperwork to a tablet. The challenge is to respond to the growing demands of consumers: personalization in treatment and product/service, quality, sust...
This morning while I was having coffee, I saw someone on LinkedIn shouting to the four winds: “This is digital transformation”, accompanied by the following image, a nice manual that a granddaughter has prepared for her grandmother.
Tutorial from a granddaughter to her grandmother to learn how to use Whatsapp
Source: http://www.lavanguardia.com/tecnologia/20180201/44450093976/whatsapp-tutorial-abuela.html
Is this digital transformation? Yes, but no. The challenge we face is not to transfer all the paperwork to a tablet. The challenge is to respond to the growing demands of consumers: personalization in treatment and product/service, quality, sustainability, immediacy, all at a competitive cost.
“Consumers have changed faster than companies and are the great engine of transformation”
Luís Galí, Director of Commercial Strategy and Marketing at Vueling.
The acceleration of the business implicitly entails the automation of all types of processes. Without a doubt, digitization and hyperconnectivity, among others, are the great enablers of the baptized Digital Transformation.
The saying “renovate or die” is still the order of the day. The transformation of the business model is not optional, and the impact on all areas of companies from marketing to production is indisputable.
If we focus on the industrial environment, paradigms such as Industry 4.0 or Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the way industrial automation projects are approached. With the massive use of technology, new business opportunities and competitive advantages appear, but also new barriers and risks that need to be evaluated and mitigated if programs and initiatives are to be carried out successfully. Among the main risks, it is worth highlighting:
- The partial absence of methodological and technological standards, although some evolutions are anticipated.
- The lack of key indicators that help measure the return on investment of these initiatives.
- The lack of interoperability between specific platforms and technologies.
- The partial non-existence of mature technologies.
- The insufficiency of mechanisms that increase the security of deployed systems and the lack of awareness among managers and users.
- The resistance to change of people and organizations in the face of such a complex and dynamic change.
In addition, we consider it essential to have a multidimensional digitization roadmap that contemplates the expected evolution for our:
- Products and/or services
- Production Processes
- Technology and Infrastructure
- Organizational Culture
- Ecosystem
“Transformations are made by people, which requires investment in time, training and leadership”
Daniel Fernández-Capo, COO of Cellnex Telecom.
We are aware of the vertigo that all this can cause. For this reason, from Logitek we propose a Framework to facilitate the design and deployment of Industry 4.0 and IoT programs and help reduce the most important risks associated with this type of initiative. Our Framework is based on four pillars:
- Strategic dimension
- Methodological scheme
- Reference architecture
- Technological dimension.
In transformation programs we must consider a large number of critical factors. For example, technological solutions, from field devices to business applications must meet the following requirements: standardization, interoperability, flexibility, scalability, real time, security.
A practical example of Logitek is the success story of the deployment of LKRemote field devices for the Telecontrol System for Cellnex Broadcasting centers.
Next March 16, we will talk about our Framework for the design and deployment of Industry 4.0 and IoT initiatives during our presentation at the JAI 2018 of the UVigo (VII Conference on Technologies and Solutions for Industrial Automation).
Ricard Abril, Logitek Business Development
Source quotes: http://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20171216/433691047373/la-aceleracion-tecnologica-obliga-a-transformar-los-modelos-de-negocio.html
