Industry 4.0 Application Strategies in Peruvian Companies

Abstract

The present work shows a vision of the transformation of the industrial sector in Peru and a confrontation with the fourth industrial revolution. Based on this, there have been identified three typical technological levels present in our reality and there have raised the most transcendental needs, as well as the strategies to be applied in each of the existing technological levels. These strategies are associated with current technology, automation, Big Data, IoT, Augmented Reality, and the horizontal and vertical integration of production processes. There are identified the necessary procedures for the implementation of Industry 4.0 as a solution to the needs already raised. Results are evaluated based on real cases that allow us to demonstrate the importance and applicability of this technological revolution in Peru. The validation of the strategies will show us the need to apply Industry 4.0 to obtain substantial increases in quality, reduction of production times, improve product prices and productivity; that is, achieve optimization in production processes, without necessarily incurring in excessive costs for its implementation. Results of the application allowed us to integrate the information at the field level in the first instance and at the level of management and data analysis in a second instance; eliminate and reduce the problem of shrinkage by almost 93 %, by 95 % the problem of stop reports and an acceptance of 80 % from the client, which exceeds by almost 60 % the previous ones. Finally, the data collected allows for having an almost real-time record of the production levels of each machine.