Industry 4.0 Pushes Manufacturers to Digitize Operations

The effects of Industry 4.0 may feel like a double-edged sword for many manufacturers. On one hand, Industry 4.0 has enacted positive progress throughout the manufacturing sector. Shops are more focused than ever on leveraging data and automation to make their operations more efficient as emerging technologies become available to them. At the same time, however, the mismatch between the opportunity for improvement and the pace that manufacturers adapt to the changes is creating an expectations gap that some companies are starting to take advantage of.