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enhanced safety, improved efficiency and productivity, increased customization, human-machine collaboration, and more meaningful work. “The biggest thing we’re going to have to do is produce more smaller items, quicker, better, faster, and cheaper, that are individually built for our customers.”
“We wanted to realize how we could do things better, faster, cheaper without killing ourselves. Because under- standing data is a tremendous orchestration of people and discipline and process and procedures. If you think about a machine and all of the processes on a machine, a ma- chine has millions and millions of millions of pieces of data flying out of it at any second. So how do we capture that data? And that’s what I became very, very intrigued with: understanding how to capture that data, spread that data from the very, very basis bottom of our machinery, and uti- lize that data all the way to the ring at register.” Defining Industry 1.0 as the advent of the factory sys- tem and implementation of steam technology, 2.0 as the introduction of the internal combustion engine and elec- tricity, 3.0 as the shift from analog to digital electronics and the rise of computers and the Internet, 4.0 as the introduc- tion to big data, analytics, virtual reality, digital twins and cloud computing, and 5.0 as human/machine connection and the introduction of AI and robotics, Tucker sees the corrugated industry as currently straddling 4.0 and 5.0. “The beautiful thing about 5.0 is we’re now allowing human interaction with machines,” he said. “We’re now al- lowing the introduction to AI and to robotics. It’s a very exciting time for business if we adopt it, understand it, and utilize it. It is going to be the future.” Tucker sees many benefits of Industry 5.0, including
Tucker says the industry can anticipate huge techno- logical leaps in terms of prefeeders and takeoff systems, as well as AI feedback-based scheduling, which he refers to as the Holy Grail in corrugated production. A data analytics stack refers to the combination of tech- nologies and tools used to gather, process, store, analyze, and visualize data. “At the very bottom of the data stack,” said Tucker, “is what is called the PLCs or Programma- ble Logic Controller. The PLCs are the brains of your ma- CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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