[Walker Reynolds] Let's talk about industry.
In the pre-internet days how did manufacturing facilities communicate with each other.
How did they communicate?
Clipboards, stacklights, telecoms.
How did many people share information?
In a plant?
In meetings, conference room meetings.
In the pre-internet days, how did you start a work order on a piece of equipment?
How did you know what you were supposed to run in the pre-internet days?
You go to a schedule board.
How did you start the machine?
Push a button.
How did you get your raw material?
How did the material handler know that you needed new raw material to run your piece
of machinery?
Phone call, bells.
How did you find out about how the plant is running?
How did the decision makers know how things are running in the pre-internet days?
They get daily reports.
In the pre-internet days what was the most powerful piece of software that anyone used?
In the pre-internet days.
[Zack] It was a spreadsheet.
[Walker] It was Excel, exactly.
Okay.
Alright, in the post-internet day, in the post internet days, what was the number one
form of communication in a plant?
It is probably email.
They email each other.
Maybe a little bit of SMS.
How do you communicate, we are talking about the typical plant the typical plant today,
how does the typical plant communicate a problem from the floor to someone else?
An Andon board maybe?
How do you communicate problems from a machine to operator to operator?
It would be digital comments in the MES System.
How do I notify a mechanic that I've got a problem with my machine?
I am going to go to a webpage and open a work order, a maintenance work order.
Or my machine going to do it for me.
How do we share information?
In the post-internet days how do we share information from lots of people?
Slack, Zoom.
So this is where companies like Flow-Software would come in.
The strength of Flow-Software.
Flow natively integrates with Slack and it connects to your equipment on the floor.
So you can take Flow-Software, you can draw data out of your equipment, and you can share
reports in a Slack channel instead of going into a conference room and having a meeting
about yesterdays data.
How do you handle your schedule in the post-internet days?
It's all digital, it's realtime, and it's based on a predictive engine.
How do you start your equipment?
Either from a control room, from MES, from SCADA, or automated.
Do you make any phone calls in the post-internet day?
No more bells.
Reports, this is the big thing.
Realtime reporting.
That's what OEE is.
OEE is telling you how you are performing right now, on this shift, with this work order,
since 6:00 AM, 7:00AM, midnight.
The other thing about realtime reports is it can automatically update our schedule.
We can predict when your going to finish this work order based on how we have been running today.
So this is the digital transformation of industry.
This is industry 4.0.
The digital transformation.
This is not connected enterprise.
Why?
And the answer is: with the connected enterprise, with the unified stack of some manufacturers,
you have to have a special key, a special piece of software, you have to have something
special to get to your information.
Okay.
The idea with digital transformation and industry 4.0 is that I can access the information I
need just by someone sharing me the place in the namespace I need to go get it.
[Zack] Like the internet.
[Walker] Like the internet, exactly.
That is digital transformation for industry.
That is industry 4.0.
And now here is the crazy thing.
In the previous chart, before I wiped the board.
Let's say this is our progress in the digital transformation of personal and industry.
This is our progress bar.
How far have most people progressed in the personal digital transformation?
Do you know anyone who doesn't use the internet?
Do you know anyone who doesn't own a cell phone?
Do you know anyone who doesn't have a computer at home?
Do you know anyone who doesn't Do you know anyone who doesn't have any smart devices
at all?
[Dramatic pause]
Lets be conservative and say we are 90% of the way there.
90% of the people we know in western civilization have progressed.
What do you think that number is for industry?
How many plants have performed this move?
That you know of?
[Zack] 5% [Walker] I think you are being generous, but we are going to be generous.
We are going to say that industry is 10% of the way there.
And that's a generous assessment.
Now we have already made the argument, the compelling argument, of why this stuff matters.
The question is why is it that industry hasn't gone from the pre-internet days to the post-internet
days.
What's the reason?
[Zack] Industry is slower to change?
[Walker] They don't know how.
They.
Don't.
Know.
How.
You won't be able to find a single plant, a single organization that says, 'We don't
need to do this'.
The answer is they don't know how?
How do they do it?
[Zack] 4.0 Solutions [Walker] That's right!
They have to find experts to help them do it.
What we talked about with the stack earlier, what's the problem?
The reason it's slow is most integrators only specialize in a layer of the stack.
So when they are ready to digitally transform, they go to the integrator they have been working
with, but the integrator that they have been working with isn't familiar with entire stack.
They don't know how to integrate all the way up the stack.
[Zack] A digital systems integrator.
[Walker] That's right.
A digital systems integrator!
How about a 4.0 Systems Integrator?
[Zack] If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail.
[Walker] That's right.
That's right exactly.
I love that analogy by the way.
[Laughs] If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem becomes a nail.
Everyone knows that this transformation needs to take place.
Everyone knows.
The OEMs know.
The end-users know.
And the integrators know.
We all know.
There are just very few who know how.
That's the problem.
That's the reason it's been so slow.
It's not that - people are motivated.
They just don't know how to do it yet.
And that's where Intellic comes in.
That's where 4.0 Solutions comes in.
That's where Flow-Software comes in.
That's where Canary Labs comes in.
That's where EZ Automation comes in.
That's where Bedrock Automation comes in.
That's where Hirshman, that's where Opto 22, Inductive Automation, Factory studio and Tatsoft,
that's where all these different companies,
Tosibox, Redlion,
that's where these companies come in.
And even within that group there is a hierarchy of knowledge.
There is specialized knowledge.
So just like we are building a digital ecosystem for plants, there is also a organizational
ecosystem for doing the digital transformation.
Thanks for watching!