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Frugal Industry 4.0: Modernising Your Factory Quickly and Cost-Effectively
Oct 8, 2026 — 09:45 am CEST - 10:45 AM CEST
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Description
Our industry needs to modernise. But with margins under pressure, Industry 4.0 can seem costly, complex and sometimes difficult to make profitable in the short term. To modernise their manufacturing facilities without compromising their competitiveness, SMEs and mid-market companies would be well advised to adopt a more cost-effective approach to Industry 4.0.
In this roundtable discussion, we will explore how to modernise a factory without major projects or excessive investment, by relying on simple, targeted and rapidly deployable technologies: sensors, data, lightweight AI and incremental automation. A practical guide to discovering how to quickly boost performance, improve industrial management and make a technological leap forward without spending millions.



