MILL TALK: What Is Industry 4.0 and How Did We Get Here? with MIT Professor David Hardt

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The evolution of technology, the workplace, and the nature of educational needs supporting the current phase of the American Industrial Revolution.
Ask any manufacturing company today about what the future holds, and likely the answer will be some form of “Industry 4.0”. Some even call it the “4th Industrial Revolution.” But what do these labels mean, and what about 3.0, 2.0 and 1.0? Does manufacturing progress in such big steps?
By looking at the long sweep of manufacturing history (and personal experience over the past 4 decades) we see both a continuous evolution of technology and a set of “principles of manufacturing”. These principles, which are drawn from the unique requirements of manufacturing, are universal and unchanging. This implies that Industry 4.0 is simply a moment in time along this trajectory, and one that continues to advance manufacturing to an ever more complex technical system, but one that still is based on these principles.
In this talk the state of manufacturing technology will be examined along with how that technology affects the workforce. The conclusion is that world class manufacturing has and will always require mastering the necessary technologies in the context of the underlying fundamentals and that education at all levels of the enterprise must include both.
Professor Hardt is an expert in system dynamics, control and manufacturing processes. He is the Ralph E. and Eloise F. Cross Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His process control research has centered on a variety of processes from welding and sheet metal forming to micro-embossing and most recently continuous soft-lithography.
Professor Hardt has served as the Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Engineering Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing.
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The Mill Talks at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation are free and open to the public and are made possible by the generous support of the Lowell Institute.

[@IngGalindo26]

This is a wonderful video. I'm an Industrial Robotics Engineer (2017) from Mexico. I've got 3 years of experiencia working for Ab-Inbev which is the world's largest brewing company. We made beers like Corona, Victoria, León, Modelo Especial, Negra Modelo. I'm in Packing deparmet and I've been Maintenance Supervisor and Production Supervisor. Every day I work with machinery of Lines Production and I can realise the importance of Industry 4.0 and its relation with productity. I'm so exited about being living a new era of Industrial revolution. I am also studying a Master Degree in Engineering with specialty in Productivity and Quality Systems.

[@Adriana-je9he]

I really liked the video, thanks for sharing. This is all scary and wonderful. I am a student of Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 at a Technology College in São Paulo, Brazil.

[@EclecticSceptic]

Excellent talk, thanks.

[@ahsanmohammed1]

35:30 Of course, we don’t get to see the video screen this part of the talk is building on. Unreal!

[@hadiquafazal5653]

He explained very well

[@religionisdelusion4078]

No one has explained this better. The management consulting firms need to learn from this

[@swapnilmoon9480]

Nice, very informative video.

[@erdaldursun8962]

These are golden informations for production engineering. Thank you so much

[@kavinyudhitia]

Thanks a lot!

[@rinkudutta2544]

Very informative vdieo. Thank you for sharing.

[@mernaabdou5368]

THANK YOU

[@tubularfrog]

My former company that makes industrial wood adhesives was crippled for months by a ransomware attack. You can't hack a piece of paper, and that's what they fell back on to make it through the computer based attack. Also specific computer files, just like paper copies, can become hard to find when you have thousands on you data drive.

[@infomanav]

Thank you

[@ReedoAce]

Such an awesome speaker! A humble natural person whom is ver knowledgeable and inspiring. This talk will be gold (BTC) in the years to come

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[@amitdalvi6130]

Hi Chris

[@colorizedenhanced-silentmo1450]

Bonjour, Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. beautifully exciting video. thank. :)

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[@sitrakaforler8696]

Really Great vidéo ! Makes me want to become an engineer ! :D

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[@teetemz]

Amazing!

[@tonyrod4388]

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic measures, whether it is the UTMOST concern or NOT, it surely is the GOLDEN opportunity that INDUSTRY 4.0 was waiting for. More automated services, less personnel to run companies, more layoffs under the excuse of a TRAGIC pandemic...no one can go against that! Even those that got fired or laid-off are the first ones to agree. No wonder the MOGULS of industry are SILENT and peaceful! SHIT!! WE HAVE BEEN DUPED ... big time!

[@ssuwandi3240]

Well you seemed to be on track. This Kriminal ideology was launched in midst of Covid

[@saumilpatel6985]

I think Cameraman had a crush on speaker. While the speaker was pointing out something on slides he kept focusing his camera on the speaker. He should have showed the slides so viewers can understand what the speaker is talking about. So frustrating. Great talk by professor though!

[@mitran.writes]

"What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say industry 2.0" my mind: Rajnikanth!! Enthiran !!!

[@TheAdventureofLetsugas]

imagine that Made in China 2025 but it actually happening since 2010? that's what we can TOTAL ADVANCEMENT. 15 years ahead of time.

[@pawanchopra6679]

Industry 4.0 is about transparency , get real time insights for all the process and system , result better decisions ..but is everybody ready.still people believe in secrecy, shortcuts ....I feel these aren't working in developing countries...

[@kutlak1309]

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[@StuntmanDan03]

The older generations dont understand opensource. Opensource drives innovation.

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[@JoeDhirk]

camera guy is bad... slap that guy

[@ahsanmohammed1]

a dinasaur talking to dinasours

[@ahsanmohammed1]

The mechanical engineering professor seems a bit like a dinosaur where talks about the current cutting edge technology and it’s future is concerned in my opinion. Sorry. A museum is therefore quite an appropriate place for this talk.

[@sjones1234]

10 of us millennials aren't worth 1 dinosaur in any industry. They could do as much with a slide rule and paper drawings as we can do with supercomputers. So a dinosaur who knows about emerging technology is one with wisdom we would do well to pay attention to.

[@sjones1234]

I did lol at your comment tho, it is on point. But listen to him, he knows what he's talking about. Much more than you see elsewhere on the online hype train. All the industries are so quick to tout industry 4.0 but none of them are able to give much more than vauge broad answers as to what they can do for any specific production environment to become 4.0

[@ahsanmohammed1]

@@sjones1234 I did listen to him. On aggregate, it was worth a listen in my opinion. I do agree, his depth and breadth of experience and knowledge is probably priceless, and worth every minute of our time, no doubt.