In order to be more competitive in the global market, companies need to collect and examine their sales and production data more precisely and centralized<\/strong>. Companies needs more and more to automate and monitor production processes in real-time and, with this view, the software plays a crucial role in communication and integration between different type of system of a glassworks: from cutting lines, to assembler, passing through working centers, tempering fournaces and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Factories always more digital and interconnected: this is the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) In order to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-industria.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optima.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe digitization of processes, the interconnection between software and production plants and the \u201calways-connected\u201d concept are some of founding principles of the so called \u201cSmart Factory\u201d<\/strong>. The information flow from sales office to production via email, calls, fax and a lot of papers slow down the process and frequently creates incomprehension, with resulting in a loss of competitiveness.<\/p>\n