Data flow requires special protection against cyber attacks

November 5, 2021 4:42 am

Forecast for Industry 5.0 involves the collaboration of human intelligence and cognitive computing.

What future prospects do you envision in the automation market?

According to the Forbes magazine, the demand for workflow automation processes is expected to spike to $26 billion by 2025, up from less than $5 billion in 2018. More than 25 percent of companies use automation in their hiring process, and by 2022, 70 percent of customer service interactions will leverage some sort of AI automation technology.

A high degree of automation also means a high availability of data, whether needed in the operational area, the OT or in the IT of the company. Data acquisition and monitoring is becoming increasingly important, ideally data is displayed and processed in real time in both areas. Especially here, Red Lion’s Edge Automation platform FlexEdge offers optimal data collection and data processing between the different enterprise levels.

How innovative practices are being adopted in view of safety protocols due to pandemic that concern human wellness?

It is important that you continue to take care of your physical and mental health and that this is also perceived by the companies themselves. Ethical and humane guidelines should be an integral part of any corporate philosophy. How the companies implement this is currently still up to them, but a corresponding overriding stipulation with regard to Industry 5.0 would possibly be desirable.

How is industry 5.0 becoming an effective platform for optimising processes to improve production?

Industry 4.0 represents mass production with little or no human involvement; Industry 5.0 brings personalisation and human influence back to manufacturing. Robots, for example, work alongside humans to help them produce the personalised products consumers demand. The biggest advances forecast for Industry 5.0 involve the collaboration of human intelligence and cognitive computing.

What advancement and new maintenance technologies are bracing up for optimising automation practices for manufacturing in the current scenario?

Anything that offers seamless communication of a solution with integrated data transmission has a future. Data must be visible and tangible everywhere and quickly. Delayed reactions to failure or downtime cost money, and must be responded to quickly. In addition, data flow requires special protection against cyber attacks, a major challenge for future data processing and transfer whether within the enterprise or to external storage.