The Industry 4.0 has proved to be more than just a trend or a marketing move. This concept has become more and more real, managing to change the industrial automation sector in a few years. The needs have changed and with them technologies used. This also applies to ESA Automation products, which has always invested in research and innovation in order to offer the solutions needed by the industry.
Esaware: the answer to the Industry 4.0
The Esaware line embodies the values of openness and flexibility of the Industry 4.0. It is a complete range of hardware and software solutions for industrial automation, created to allow operators to carry out even the hardest jobs with simplicity. In fact, the Industry 4.0 was born from the changes that have happened within this sector in the last years. From ever bigger volumes of data and information circulating on production plants, to new forms of interaction between humans and machines, and among machines. Hence, ESA Automation’s goal to allow users to manage any industrial reality trough Esaware smart and efficient solutions. In the Industry 4.0 we witness a clear hegemony of software over hardware. That is mind over body. This is the direction ESA Automation is investing in, as demonstrated by Esaware SCADA Crew. Crew is an intuitive and smart software, that allows you to program all HMI and IPC solutions with maximum easiness. How? Thanks to user-friendly and captivating graphics, to a library of customizable vector objects and to convenient and familiar commands. Or the remote assistance platform Everyware, that allows you to monitor your plant and to intervene on machines wherever they are.
The future of the Industry 4.0 and ESA Automation products
Like any other reality, the Industry 4.0 is subject to progress and change. Every year we face new necessities and we can count on new discoveries. What is certain is that the path chosen by industrial automation is the Internet of Things and Internet of Services one. Which means, a future in which interaction among devices will be more and more automatic. Machines and software access on their own initiative to the information available and communicate them automatically to other systems and men. Without the need of any protocol or configuration. Such a future has already begun with ESA Automation new products, created for the Industry 4.0. Like the Cloud service and Esaware Web Panel, that transform the management and operation of production plants, making them fully open. Finally, among the strongest trends of the Industry 4.0 we have to mention the increasing awareness on energy consumption and environmental impact (as well as economic). The cost of non-renewable resources is growing and it has become necessary to be able to monitor energy consumption. That is why ESA Automation has created a range of solutions for energy management, which includes smart meters and the software Energyaware. More efficiency and openness: these are the values of the Industry 4.0 that will change the industrial automation sector and that has inspired ESA Automation products.