Industry 4.0

[SiliconWizard]

F*cking pile of bullcrap. 

https://www.symmetryelectronics.com/blog/11-pillars-of-industry-4-0/?utm_term=11-pillars-blog

[Kim Christensen]

When people say "space-age" I always think of 60's and 70's technology even though we're technically still in the space-age.
The article reads like a list of buzzwords and catch phrases. Prefect for management's next power point presentation. Just copy and paste!

[dmills]

4.0? So that would be an insufficiently debugged alpha build being palmed off on the early adopters as being a major new release then? Thanks, but hard pass.

When it gets to about 4.2 or so I might spin up a test economy somewhere unimportant and see how it performs, but 4.0, don't make me laugh.

[thm_w]

What an odd company and history.

Our Mission
To help engineers and industrial designers, worldwide, achieve their engineering and technical goals through comprehensive design-phase support, available-to-ship products on hand, and a broad selection of specialty semiconductor and IoT communication products.

Our History
In July 2017, Symmetry Electronics was acquired by TTI, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company. As an authorized global semiconductor distributor offering technical support, sales and distribution of wireless and video technologies, Symmetry has been selling electronic components since 1998.

Symmetry serves customers with a worldwide sales and engineering team delivering technical services alongside an e-commerce experience. With its focused line card, growing inventory and unsurpassed technical support, Symmetry strives to support design engineers and buyers throughout the design cycle and into production.

The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with international offices in Mexico, Brazil, Canada and China. Symmetry is part of the Exponential Technology Group (XTG), within the TTI Family of Companies.

They are some really specific distributor? I don't get it.

I searched for a few parts and they were twice the price of Digikey 

[HackedFridgeMagnet]

I know a guy who "managed" a AUD$2 million research project into Industry 4.0.
He said his only motivation for being involved was so he could say he managed a 2 million dollar project.
Needless to say there were zero things learned by the project team and zero things learned by the government/politicians who sponsored this research.

I think they used some sort of enterprise framework supplied by Siemens. That included Siemens Pcb design software! I never used it but I bet it was a crock of s***.
IIRC it cost $20000 to find someone to install this framework!

My colleague was roped into it and my repeated advice to him was get off this project, close it down, waste as little of your life on it as you can, it is destined to fail.

So was it  success or failure?
It depends on how you view the flushing $2million down the toilet.

[SiliconWizard]

Welcome to the 21st century.

[TomS_]

So much [citation needed], but I'm guessing the idea is to get you to contact them for more information.