A digital technology platform for supply chain

工业4.0是公司实物资产的数字化，以及公司与其价值链合作伙伴（从供应商到客户）整合到数字生态系统中的过程。它使用智能技术和实时数据来提高灵活性、定制化、效率和生产力，并减少时间、成本和创新周期。由于颠覆性技术、流程数字化和数据爆炸式增长，工业4.0将对产品的设计、制造、组装、运输和维修方式以及必须适应这些变化的人员产生重大影响。工业4.0主要关注九项技术：自主机器人、系统集成、物联网（IoT）、仿真、增材制造、云计算、增强现实、大数据和网络安全。通过这些技术，可以实现新的供应链模式，生产和相关物流过程将发生变化。这需要在两个方面进行创新：智能产品和智能流程。这也需要劳动力发生重大变化，他们需要接受培训，掌握在工业4.0环境中工作的技能；这是工业4.0的最大挑战之一。西门子加拿大公司正与康科迪亚大学和École de technology supsamrieure （ÉTS）合作，重点研究供应链，目的是利用工业4.0技术的优势，开发智能供应链规划的方法和工具。员工是向工业4.0过渡的关键推动者；他们必须接受培训，资格需要更新，以适应新的跨学科方法。康考迪亚大学和ETS在这些领域都有很强的专业知识，并有能力满足项目的要求。拟议的项目是加拿大航空航天公司为第四次工业革命做好准备的重要一步。这是加拿大同类项目中的首批项目之一，OEM正在考虑航空航天数字化，以迈向工业4.0。

Industry 4.0 is the digitization of a company's physical assets and the company's integration into digital ecosystems with its value chain partners, from suppliers to customers. It uses smart technology and the use of real-time data to increase flexibility, customization, efficiency and productivity, and to reduce time, costs and innovation cycles. Due to disruptive technologies, the digitization of processes, and an explosive growth in data, Industry 4.0 will have a major impact on the way products are designed, manufactured, assembled, shipped and repaired, and on the people that have to adapt to these changes. Industry 4.0 focuses on nine technologies: autonomous robots, system integration, the internet of things (IoT), simulation, additive manufacturing, cloud computing, augmented reality, big data, and cybersecurity. Through these technologies, new supply chain paradigms can be achieved, and production and related logistics processes will change. This will require innovation on two fronts: smart products and smart processes. It will also require substantial change to the workforce, which will need to be trained and skilled to work in an Industry 4.0 environment; this is one of the biggest challenges of Industry 4.0. Siemens Canada is partnering with Concordia University and École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) to collaborate on research that will focus on the supply chain, with the objective of developing methodologies and tools for smart supply chain planning by leveraging the advantage of Industry 4.0 technologies. Employees are key enablers in the transition to Industry 4.0; they must be trained and qualifications need to be updated to adapt to the new interdisciplinary approach. Both Concordia University and ETS have strong expertise in these areas and are well equipped to meet the required objectives of the project. The proposed project is an important step towards preparing Canadian aerospace companies for the fourth industrial revolution. It is one of the first projects of its kind in Canada, whereby the digitization of aerospace is being considered by an OEM in a move towards Industry 4.0.