The Digital Shopfloor Alliance seeks to maximize Industry 4.0 ROI by providing guidelines and blueprints for effective deployment, validation, and evaluation.

While Industry 4.0 holds great promise for developing a real-time, interconnected network of factories, suppliers, customers, and developers, its adoption has been sluggish. Bringing operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) into alignment has been organizationally challenging, manufacturers have shown poor awareness about digital manufacturing solutions and their business value potential, and have been leery of the high costs associated with the deployment, maintenance, and operation of connected systems in the manufacturing shopfloors.

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