Senior Technician 4.0 2022-2024

What is Digital Transformation and 4.0?

The technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, which can be summarised in the concept of 4.0, clearly have a direct impact on production, on the way machines and plants are operated. The availability of a large amount of data in digital format and the evolution and wide diffusion of web and cloud technologies, have in parallel made it possible to extend, or rather expand the digital logic to all sectors and processes of companies, first and foremost industrial ones, and more generally of organisations of all kinds, modifying not only working tools, but the organisational and business models themselves.

The change starts in any case in the factory, in production, with the introduction of 4.0 machines. But the data collected in the production departments can and must be transferred along what is known as the ‘automation pyramid’ and correlated with production planning systems (the MES), with management systems (the ERP) and, more generally, with all the other systems and processes that characterise industrial production: from procurement to distribution, from customer service to strategic company management, based on Business Intelligence.

Why is this necessary?

The installation of a 4.0 machine is necessary, but not sufficient, to enable the digital transition, i.e. to maintain business competitiveness. Production plants and automation systems must communicate with each other and with the rest of the company, through what are called ‘integration solutions’. These are well established in the context of large companies, which have developed in-house expertise and a network of partnerships capable of planning and implementing them. On the other hand, when 4.0 arrives in a small or medium-sized company, it does not find the terrain and skills to develop, nor does the use of external consultancy completely solve the problem, either because of a cost problem or because of a problem of specificity, standards and functionalities provided in 4.0 machines calibrated to the large manufacturing company.

SMEs thus find themselves in the need to adapt or customise 4.0 technologies and related software systems according to their needs, with potentially even ‘artisanal’ solutions, both at the factory level and in integration with the management tools of the design office, purchasing and sales, and administration. For small and medium-sized companies, it is therefore necessary to have the skills to develop appropriate and commensurate 4.0 solutions in-house, as well as to deal with external consultants and companies providing software solutions in an informed and balanced customer-supplier relationship.

The profile: in brief

It develops software to integrate production 4.0 systems with corporate IT systems: production control, management, procurement and distribution.

Purpose

It contributes to the realisation of digital integration projects between the different sectors and information systems of a company: production plants, production control systems, management, procurement and distribution systems. On the basis of well-established skills in software development technologies, it deals with external suppliers of complex IT solutions and designs and develops simpler ones directly.

National reference figure (Art.2 and Annex G DM MIUR 03/08/11)

SENIOR TECHNICIAN FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES – TS 4.0

Approved operations by Decree no. 13135GRFVG dd.19.09.2022