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30 PCB007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2021 instance, you take in the senior process engi- neer experience to set up some of the initial batches; aer processing a sufficient popula- tion of items, then you get an idea as to how your processes are running. It's not really one- to-one transferable from factory to factory; obviously there is a certain level that the neural network would have to adapt to specific local conditions. However, over time, you will have the corrections that the AI can provide. Using the base recipe, you will probably get some er- ror in your end result by some margin, and the AI might propose to you, "We're going to alter by this and this," so you can either accept it or put it in automatic exception mode, so that you can get this totally automated. But, as I'm say- ing that, the first input definitely comes from the process engineer. Matties: Factories will need to find new dis- cipline to really strengthen that front end to move into this direction. Zajac: I don't think that many new skills on the front end need to be involved here. I think the typical team that runs front-end will have the same say. It's only that their results become much more accurate, and their mistakes can be rooted out easier. Some of the guesswork is go- ing to be taken out of the equation. Matties: How do you see Industry 4.0 overlay- ing the pillars of the company? Zajac: I hinted at this before that we are plan- ning to have our 4.0 platform be the mesh that ties in all our equipment pieces along with the other manufacturer equipment so that we can have one single ecosystem throughout your entire enterprise. e goal is to be able to pro- vide solutions for the enterprises, but the first step is entire factories. We need to have a place where all the machines, personnel, mainte- nance, operators, engineers, process engi- neers, and management can store, speak to, provide data, and then analyze it as they need. ere will be a set of base functions right out of the box. However, we anticipate—and this is by design—some of the features will be spe- cific to a customer's needs; there will be a place to define that so we can make it tailor-made for the customer. Matties: Is the soware a local install or a cloud- based system? How will this mesh inside the factory? Zajac: Typical installation would be a localized, unified namespace with the ability to have a twin cloud replication. It depends on your per- spective on data security, or the need to have your data available remotely. If you had a dis- tributed network of factories, there is proba- bly a high need for you to have your data in the cloud. Matties: With all the cybersecurity issues, I think that's going to be one of the big questions or concerns people will have. Stepinski: Security is a huge topic. We have also looked at integrating the AR/VR to help both with security and for service. Lukasz Stepien: We have dedicated teams work- ing on intellectual prop- erty security. is is for the employees interest- ed in security measures that protect data from being extracted. Imagine the factory without any sensitive information available on the floor— you have the example of having the augment- ed reality, the glasses. e information will be shown to you on the display. Stepinski: If you throw a HoloLens on your head, you don't have to document anything in your factory. e HoloLens can acquire a 2D code and give you a heads-up display on what's Lukasz Stepien