| | July 2019 6EDITOR'S DESKIn today's era of `Industry 4.0,' heavy industries are transforming their operations with swift and seamless interactions among the suppliers, customers, employees, compliance teams, investors, and other third-party experts. The combination of advanced operations techniques and smart technologies has paved the path for a company from these industries to transform into a digital enterprise that works autonomously. Driving these transformations are the new age technologies such as big data, cloud computing, collaborative robots, additive manufacturing, augmented reality (AR), and industrial internet of things (IIoT), among others. Leveraging constant stream of data from interconnected IoT systems, machine learning enables organizations to foresee any machine failure and take proactive decisions to avert the damage. Industry 4.0 has a significant impact in three key areasproducts, supply chain, and customers. Apart from redefining the way products are designed and developed, Industry 4.0 enables companies to strengthen customer relationship using rich operational insights. Besides, information from IoT devices can be used to enhance direct selling and marketing strategies. With technological evolution happening at blinding speed, companies can use these innovations to stay on top of their game and lead the market. Amid the raging debate of AI being a threat to human resource, the coming together of advanced technologies and new communication models is creating new job opportunities. Job roles like predictive maintenance system Specialist and enterprise Digital Ethicist will be a norm in almost every industry soon. In this edition, StartupCity presents to you the leading Industry 4.0 startups in 2019. The edition features a list of leading technology vendors along with insightful articles from thought leaders in the Industry 4.0 space.Let us know your thoughts.Optimize, Automate, InnovateKenneth Thomas Managing Editoreditor@startupcity.comCopyright © 2019 SiliconMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.July - 05 - 2019, Volume 03 - Issue 10 (ISSN 2644-2345)Published by SiliconMedia, Inc. To subscribe to Startup CityVisit www.startupcity.com Editorial StaffAaron Pierce Ava Garcia Mia WilliamsDanny RobinsonJoshua ParkerVian IsaacManaging EditorKenneth Thomas*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffSalesRich Gonsalvessales@startupcity.comVisualizersAlbert Rozario Contact Us:Phone:510.972.5010Fax:510-894-8405Emailsales@startupcity.comeditor@startupcity.commarketing@startupcity.com
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