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Industrial Digital Transformation

By : Shyam Varan Nath, Ann Dunkin, Mahesh Chowdhary, Nital Patel
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Industrial Digital Transformation

By: Shyam Varan Nath, Ann Dunkin, Mahesh Chowdhary, Nital Patel

Overview of this book

Digital transformation requires the ability to identify opportunities across industries and apply the right technologies and tools to achieve results. This book is divided into two parts with the first covering what digital transformation is and why it is important. The second part focuses on how digital transformation works. After an introduction to digital transformation, you will explore the transformation journey in logical steps and understand how to build business cases and create productivity benefit statements. Next, you’ll delve into advanced topics relating to overcoming various challenges. Later, the book will take you through case studies in both private and public sector organizations. You’ll explore private sector organizations such as industrial and hi-tech manufacturing in detail and get to grips with public sector organizations by learning how transformation can be achieved on a global scale and how the resident experience can be improved. In addition to this, you will understand the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in digital transformation. Finally, you’ll discover how to create a playbook that can ensure success in digital transformation. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with industrial digital transformation and be able to apply your skills in the real world.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: The "Why" of Digital Transformation
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Section 2: The "How" of Digital Transformation

Transforming the semiconductor industry

In this section, we will focus primarily on the digital transformation of the semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry permeates all aspects of society and accounted for over $400 billion in sales in 2019 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/266973/global-semiconductor-sales-since-1988/). The industry is responsible for driving remarkable miniaturization in electronic circuits, such that today's smartphones have more computational power than the original desktop computer and are about 100,000 times more powerful than the guidance computer that helped man land on the moon. In order to pursue this drive for integrating more and more functionality on a single piece of silicon, the industry must transform how it manufactures. Digitization has played a key role in this journey. In this section, we will be specifically looking at the following topics:

  • Digitization and lights-out manufacturing
  • Digitization for process monitoring...