The Art Of Connecting

Smart products. Smart process. Smart factory.

- Marc Jarrault

Industrial 4.0 also known as ‘Smart factory’ or ‘Smart manufacturing’, aims to innovatively transition business models and revenue sources with the use of advanced information and services. The transformation is driven by mass adoption of technology and digitisation across sectors, including automation, manufacturing process improvement and productivity/production optimisation. The use of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and Big data analytics has maximized the efficiency of manufacturing ecosystem. The need for factories to be future ready has influenced thoughts and actions of manufacturers to implement technologies to make smart factory a reality. Smart cables and connectors play a vital role to empower smart factories and increase production efficiency.

Being the world’s leading suppliers of cable and connection technology, Lapp is already shaping smart factory initiative. The future began long ago at Lapp when we partnered with SmartFactoryKL, a non-profit association founded in 2005. It is a network of industrial and research partners, which initiates and implements together research and development projects, ranging from base technologies to the development of marketable products in Europe. In association with SmartFactoryKL, Lapp has developed a hybrid plug within the frame work that combines data, power supply and pneumatics in one connector and significantly reduces the retrofit times of a modular production plant.