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25 AutoData | June 2018 Campo, SP, to use Industry 4.0 solutions, the communication index of machines is still timid around here. In the 332 AutoData edition of April 2017, it was found that only 7% of the machines in the local automotive industry were connected, while in North America this index is 19%, in Europe 20% and in Asia, the leader region in this trans- formation, 40%. However, the novelties applied in the industry here already offer some type of benefit in the production. More than that, Industry 4.0 has encouragedworkers who are involved in fully manual operations to create solutions using its technologies. In FCAmany processes use the digital twin concept, the IoT tools or are fully con- nected in the cloud. This novelty for much part of the factory labor encouraged the development of solutions that brought previously unthinkable benefits. This is the case of the maintenance of the solders of the robots used in Betim, MG. FROM EYE TO SMARTPHONE An army of about 100 operators per- formed the predictive maintenance of the 645 factory robots, 420 of them dedicated to soldering components. Until recently, this verificationwas purelyvisual, checking all the copper tips of the welder-robots. So two electricians of the teammapped all compliance parameters in thewelders’ operation and developed a smartphone app that monitors the performance of the- se robots at a distance. On the other hand the FCA digital twin, a US$ 1 million virtual reality room investment capable of simulating not only the design of components but the factory configuration and the operation of system assemblers in the vehicles, contributed to the development of Argo. Overall 160 vir- tual simulations accelerated the definition of processes. These are some of the first initiatives that come to Brazil and demonstrate, in practice, that this time the technologywill not run over the automotive industry as it did with the advent of smartphones a few years ago. LEAVE IT TO US, HUMAN At the Hannover Messe in Frankfurt, Germany, many demonstrations of systems and machines that talk to other systems and machines and work very well by themselves. HOW MUCH FOR THE SHOW? The difficult is to obtain numbers that are not related to terabytes and alike. Probably because it costs a lot to reach the large savings generated by Industry 4.0 in factories Disclousure/Hannover Messe Disclousure/Siemens