October 2019

| 10 | October 2019 www.smartmachinesandfactories.com | FEATURES – GAMBICA three-part digitalisation series | I n the first chapter GAMBICA’s members talked about laying the ground work and asking the important questions “Where are you now?”, “Where do you want to go?”, “Who do you need?”, “do you have the skills to do it?”, before even giving consideration to the question of what technologies to use. The Second looked at the choices a manufacturers will face when adopting smart technologies in their processes and how practical they are. In this, the third and last chapter, GAMBICA’s members will be talking about keeping your plant running and safe. The consequences of something in GAMBICA: A practical journey to a digital future In December 2018 eight GAMBICA Industrial Automation members gathered around a table in Leicester to discuss IT, cyber security, cloud computing and of course automation and what it all means for Smart Manufacturing. The aim of the that conversation was to cut through the marketing hype and buzzwords that surround the subject and, in this special three-part serialisation in Smart Machines & Factories create an unbiased and pragmatic guide to getting started on your smart manufacturing journey. Victoria Montag – sector head for Industrial Automation, GAMBICA, continues the special three-part GAMBICA serialisation with the final part of the King Power Stadium discussions on digitisation. PART THREE