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80 SMT Magazine • February 2016 Hoz: They've gone through this transformation faster than anyone else, although they're car- rying like 1.4 billion people behind them. So many people but they still want to put robots there. If you look at our results, you will see that the majority of our business today is generated through the Pacific Rim and the Japan area, not in the U.S. This is where the busi- ness is, with big volumes and many manufacturing sites. It might be an American logo and an American company, but the manufacturing won't be done there. They want to have the design in one place. Send it over here to Europe and then ship it then to South America or wherever. Lavi Ben David: A few years ago in- vesting in software in China was nev- er even considered. The answer was to put in another line and put more peo- ple there. Today, they invest in soft- ware to increase their performance, utilization and efficiencies and this is seen clearly with our results. Hoz: Another aspect of Industry 4.0 is from the design stage and this is the digital product model. Every- thing is digitalized. You get the de- sign, the schematic and the layout. You get the X-ray shapes from our library and then compare the CAD and the BOM. You compare, and you see that there is a match there and you send it to the panel design. Everything is automated. You do the product summary and start giv- ing work instructions to all of the machines, like line programming, documentation, and stencil design. You then start programming the SMT line and the other machines in the process. Everything is digitalized and sent to the assembly. What's good about this is that when we are finished doing that is there is feedback. In Industry 4.0, you have to connect with every- thing. What do you do with that in- formation and data? You have to have a system that can really take the feedback and bring it all the way back to the designers, so next time they designs there's improvement and you will find the manufacturing constraints in zero time. The feedback loop that we do is another angle for Industry 4.0. iNdustrY 4.0: creatiNg a staNdard