Indústria 4.0 – Virtualização de sistemas aplicados em monitoramento de processos

Abstract

In the current world we live in with the development of a lot of technologies and the same time their verticalization for the most common equipments of day-to-day, being residential, buildings and even in industrial applications, these technologies which are often derived from the industry due a reflection of development and cheapening of electronic components and stays more evident how much has been the obsession of the human being by the access of information that enables a small management of common situations, but also decision making resulting in the wellbeing of people, and that in context industrial is really needed and that the result is seen in efficiency, productivity and other important indicators that allow reduction of failures in production and consequently cost reduction due to the monitoring of processes. The fact is that today the major companies in the industrial automation sector are already predicting the future in the industry, so they are developing solutions that are now able to meet situations had not been thought, unused or poorly utilized as it is very common even in new plants a responsible equipment by a step of the product manufacturing process and providing an Ethernet communication, but it is not integrated with other equipment involved in other stages of the process and thus failing to promote full integration in the plant which converge in large possibilities for monitoring and management plant as a whole. The future of the industry is known and we are already experiencing this phenomenon attributed to the name of the fourth revolution in the industry, or also as Industry 4.0, which will allow us greater flexibility both with regard to process control, as expand the possibility of effective monitoring in steps of processes with the introduction of a greater processing capacity of the field devices coupled to the input of a larger communication between these devices. Identifying these technology gaps in existing industrial processes in all genres and is the responsibility of automation professionals involved in each segment in order to support the customization of these technologies offered by large automation companies, this is certainly an important vision the automation professional will need to develop to suit the current industry for the new 21st century industry.