Digital transformation to foundry 4.0

The competitiveness of the foundry sector is driven by innovation oriented to quality and production efficiency. The deeper knowledge of foundry process supports the introduction of optimal solutions to high quality products as requested from different global markets. The ability to manage all the stages of foundry production, based on advanced monitoring and cognitive platform, is fundamental to be able to react in real-time with a positive impact in terms of energy, environment and cost. Nowadays, the challenge is the digitalisation of real processes introducing intelligent systems to control the stability and the efficiency of production lines, along with being able to enable quality assessment and predictive maintenance. The application of the new ICT platform, Smart Prod ACTIVE, is oriented to zero defect manufacturing as demonstrated and validated at the foundry