EGİAD (Agean Young Businessmen Association), which is a platform for young industrialists and businessmen to exchange information and ideas, gathered its members with the leading brand of automation sector, Mitsubishi Electric, under "Industry 4.0 Information Meetings". EGİAD President Aydin Buğra İlter, who performed the opening speech at the association center on Monday, October 2, said, "As industry and manufacturing account for 35 percent of the country's economy in the 1980s, today, this figure has fallen to below 20 percent. The direct and indirect economic contribution of the new industrial revolution will increase the need for qualified labor in our country and our region, as well as move up the ladder in productivity and innovation. It is vital for us to implement an education system that will increase the digital competencies of our children and that we can raise intermediate staff with these competencies so that we can perform the transformation in the direction of Industry 4.0 correctly."

Expressing the fact that Mitsubishi Electric's e-F@ctory concept is an evolutionary step that can provide very serious cost savings while increasing speed, quality and productivity in production, Bizel said, "We can increase the speed and efficiency in the factories, reduce the error rates in large scale by monitoring the processes instantly, and improve the production costs and hence the business volume. We are able to reduce energy costs with our ability to collect data from production line devices, and we also enable shortening of commissioning and installation times with our fully integrated automation platform.”

Bizel, who said that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the foundation of Industry 4.0 and smart factories, stated that the number of devices connected with IoT is expected to increase exponentially over the next few years. At this point, Bizel noted that companies' IT infrastructure needs to change according to the needs of the era, and cloud-based data storage and processing services will become increasingly important.

Speaking of Mitsubishi Electric and Intel brands signing a joint pilot program at Intel's manufacturing facility in Malaysia, Bizel said: "Thanks to the pilot program that combines Mitsubishi Electric's e-F@ctory automation expertise with Intel's expertise in solving the "Things of Internet" problem, it became possible to intervene without a breakdown before the failure was noticed. Pilot program; resulted with high efficiency, the possibility of preventive maintenance activities, low failure rate, low cost and perfect harmony. All these results led Intel to save about 9 million dollars.”

Bizel said that the production lines that the robots and people work interacted with in the factories are more efficient than the production lines consisting solely of robots and added that "Until today, robots working alone usually come out as robots working with people. Robots that are vital in the production process of the plants are getting more involved in the industry day by day with the speed and convenience they provide and become a highly ordinary business force today. The use of robots, especially in industry, is becoming widespread in Turkey. "

Bizel said that Mitsubishi Electric's digital factory concept e-F@ctory also plays an important role in the robots and added "Thanks to our advanced robot technology, especially large production series become practical and flexibility in production is increasing. Our robots which are sensitive to human arm or hand; are preferred in many sectors such as food, medicine, packaging, automotive, white articles. These robots, especially in difficult and dangerous jobs, provide a great added value to the factory in terms of work safety and workers’ health."