Industry 4.0 stories
Manufacturers relying on paper records risk bottlenecks, errors and downtime unless they digitise shop-floor data, SYSPRO says.
Contact-free radio links are helping City Forests track crews across 23,730 hectares, while also supporting Covid-era social distancing and digital dockets.
Downtime and lost revenue can still hit automated warehouses without on-site teams to fix faults fast and plan preventative maintenance.
Construction firms are cutting call-outs and speeding up onboarding as wearable, cloud-based mentoring puts expert guidance on site in real time.
Rising retirements and digital skills gaps could push up infrastructure costs and slow delivery unless firms train workers in data and robotics.
Better visibility into inventories and provenance could help firms cut downtime, reduce errors and recover faster as demand rebounds.
Project overruns could ease as Unified Engineering cuts rework, speeds decisions and helps teams share validated data across capital projects.
Wider use of connected safety gear depends on manufacturers, purchasers and workers keeping pace with fast-changing technology and clear instructions.
Mulcahy Engineering signs $1 million deal with Epicor Software to automate business processes and drive growth.
Construction firms could cut costs and delays by using digital replicas to spot failures, test designs and improve sustainability before build-out.
Quality controls and flexible production have helped a South Island dairy plant hit world-class hygiene results and win export approvals.
A New Zealand dairy plant is already beating hygiene benchmarks, with microbial results far below accepted limits after its first season.
Sector growth is set to lift jobs and exports as smaller Kiwi tech firms tap climate, finance and 4IR demand over the next decade.
Digital monitoring, AI and online platforms are heightening stress, blurring boundaries and complicating safety rules for workers, experts warn.
A shortage of engineers is already constraining construction, manufacturing and agriculture as firms struggle to adapt to new skills and technologies.
Jobseekers could cut training time from days to minutes as a new virtual reality tool is piloted to fill construction skills gaps in New Zealand.
Stratus is a software company focused on infrastructure solutions, especially for fault tolerant servers and virtualised edge servers.
The technology could reduce accidents and increase construction site safety in tightly-packed areas or near critical infrastructure.
FIRST was founded in 1990, and its members come from 95 countries across Oceania, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
RMIT, Siemens and Festo have partnered to establish an Industrial Digital Innovation Hub in Australia, supporting Industry 4.0 workforce transformation.
