The Industry 4.0 idea is ever more present in the executive’s daily agenda, so it becomes more and more important to understand the concepts, benefits and advantages in adopting it in our companies. Data collection and management is the cornerstone and also biggest challenge in this change process, with Industry 4.0 being such a wide notion, it comes with many opportunities and variables to work with. Our main target is to bring the concept down to the machine shop and from there explore the opportunities we can take, here and now. Through manufacture dedicated software and tools we can create digital twins of the whole process chain and work towards improving our main KPIs such as machine/operator efficiency, process control, process planning, CAM programing, scrap, quality, production cost and maintenance, among others. By managing and acting upon manufacturing data we have a real life opportunity to increase our competitiveness and profitability. It is also an opportunity that Brazil has now to jump to the highest level of productivity and technology.
