Retrofitting Old Rubber Machinery for Industry 4.0: Cost, Benefits & Quick Wins
When the production manager at a mid-sized rubber components plant in Gujarat walked into his facility one Monday morning, he faced a familiar problem: nearly 15% material waste from their 20-year-old rubber mixing mill, but no data to explain why. The machine still worked—it mixed compounds reliably—but it was essentially blind. No sensors tracked batch […]
