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84 SMT Magazine • February 2016 vest in order to implement that. We come in, connect the systems, get the data, collect the data, normalize it, and send it up. Matties: You're standardizing the language, so that solves the problem and that's your advan- tage. Is there anything else that we should talk about that we haven't already covered? Hoz: Maybe we can talk about decentralization, in terms of big data. Not to keep everything in one place, so you can put it at risk but decen- tralize it, or distribute it even. Lavi Ben David: From a data collection perspec- tive, instead of housing it in a centralized place that is in danger of failure when you have a complete shutdown, we decentralize it to a lot of small computers that can share and also store all the information, so it's decentralized at the collection level. The last is big data, which suddenly every- one is collecting and there is a standard way to collect the data and everything is visible. We want to take this information in the big data ca- pabilities and perform a sophisticated analysis and provide feedback to the designer and to the OEMs. We'll provide them the visibility of how they can improve their products on the next cycle so it will be faster and have better quality with their design. This is really where the next step is from our perspective. Hoz: In my view, the world of manufacturing starts at the design level. It's very important to capture everything into one picture and really control, communicate, and exchange data be- tween the different entities here and run it back and forth. Our goal is to connect everything to- gether. Industry 4.0 is an important milestone for these businesses and for these manufactur- ing houses but for us, it has been for years in the making. We would like to create an ecosystem for every company that manufactures anything to be able to virtualize everything and feel like all their global manufacturing can be controlled over one basic machine. Matties: Now what you guys are describing is tier-one level. What about the smaller guys that have one facility? Do your solutions fit for them as well? Hoz: It's the same, but scaled. These types of factories are characterized with, in most cases, low volume and high mix because the mass production is done, in most cases, in cheaper places. These shops are expertizing in different types of manufacturing. They do lots of prototypes in very high mix but the volume is low. How do you change the programs like that? How do you move from one prototype to another? Matties: Quickly. Hoz: Yes, exactly. We take the program into ac- count, computerize it and generate one pro- gram that can run all the different work orders at the same time. The changeover time is quick and there's also the material savings and pro- duction planning in that respect. Matties: The small guys have to feel like there's a solution that's affordable and achievable because they don't always have the infrastructure and re- source to implement such systems. Hoz: These board shops also need to have some kind of competitive edge from others. Every- thing is automated, everything is computerized and there is no room for mistakes for them. They cannot just afford buying another ma- chine. Everything has to be optimized and ev- erything has to be manufactured right the first time. The connection with the designers is ex- tremely important with the checks that they have to run and the programs that they have to do for the machines. The documentation that they have to provide to the customers is also ex- tremely important. If you look at our customer portfolio, you'll see tier ones, tier twos, but also many others. We have more than 1,000 custom- ers worldwide; not all of them can be tier one, but this is their aspiration. Matties: Gentlemen, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. SMT iNdustrY 4.0: creatiNg a staNdard