Industry 4.0 and Augmented Reality with GNC Proses. Industry 4.0, forming the forefront of digitalization, and Augmented Reality technology, redefining business models, have started to enter, not only in business life but into daily activities. It is necessary to adopt these technologies very quickly in order to catch the new industrial revolution movement.
Applications in Industry 4.0 and Augmented Reality (AR) are constantly gaining new dimensions. These concepts, which have started to be included in all production processes, increase the productivity of production while at the same time leading to creative new ideas. We have talked about what is happening in Turkish market in regard to this, the readiness of the Turkish market to these concepts with GNC Proses Sales Director Gökhan Akdemir.
GNC Proses, as a company operating in the industrial automation industry offers automation, software and hardware solutions. The automation activities of the company are listed as machine and process automation, online production data collection, Scada and HMI solutions. Software activities include Augmented Reality, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), OPC Servers and mobile application development. GNC Process’s hardware activities include industrial panel PC, barcode reader, dashboard and drive solutions. Now that we know the company closely, we can now continue with Gökhan Akdemir’s views on industry.
Vertical Integration and Augmented Reality are the two basic topics
Gökhan Akdemir stated that, in the most basic sense, Industry 4.0 was based on all data sources communicating with each other, and he explained that they had solutions for two important components: Vertical Integration and Augmented Reality. Akdemir defined these two concepts as: “Vertical Integration enhances the ability to associate and communicate with all departments, systems, computers, machines, work terminals, devices and tools within the factory system. Augmented Reality (AR) attempts to match the virtual objects on the real-field image with the camera mode of mobile devices in an enhanced visual format using the image processing technology”.
Akdemir said that in order to benefit from the Augmented Reality technology, internet access and smart devices to identify the augmented reality should be available in the current environment. Akdemir; “After these conditions have occurred; When you define the image designed for Augmented Reality with the app on your device, your device detects the image and you are seeing a new image”.
Augmented Reality with GNC Proses will radically change business processes
Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that will radically change the business processes according to Gökhan Akdemir; and he stated that the companies perceived this technology as extracting data from the factory; and opening it to the internet or even evaluated the investment budget as very high. “As GNC Process, we are able to set our internally developed Pro AG Augmented Reality application up; so that we can work in the local network of companies,” said Akdemir; and further noted that because they offered special design and AR solutions for the companies; they could create models with a flexible investment budget.
Stating that AR technology has use in several areas such as; defence, industry, health, game, retail, logistics etc.; Akdemir continued his words in the context of industrial usage; “With AR technology, users can access the live data of important equipment and machines in the field faster and more visually; and can access to the related image, catalogue, manual, drawing and video; related to the related machine or operation on the field image; and they have the ability to create a faster solution through warning and guiding signs in any failure or maintenance operation. AR technology also provides access to data on a real field view where it is dangerous or difficult to access. There is an increasing interest in AR Technology. Companies are interested in making their operations more efficient and minimizing errors; as well as ensuring the fastest and most visual access of field personnel to data and information”.
What will be the effects to the robotization of the labour force in Turkey?
Saying that Turkey is one of the manufacturing centres of interest in the world; Gokhan Akdemir argued that the robots will constitute a significant part of the workforce with the increase of Industry 4.0 achievement; and foreign companies will start to invest in their own country. Pointing out to a challenging process ahead of Turkey, Akdemir; “Our industry, which is somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0; has to catch up with this new industrial revolution and not fall behind in the competition. The low efficiency in production, on the other hand, high import dependency ratio of exports; and ways to close the gap in the current account deficit are Turkey’s chronic problems. Therefore Industry 4.0 should be read as a good opportunity in Turkey’s journey; to become one of the world’s largest 10 economies and local and national technology production should be more supported”.
Industry 4.0 or, in other words, the digital transformation is a journey according to Akdemir; and he added that in order to not fall behind in competition; companies should care about this issue as soon as possible.