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15 Industry 4.0 and Beyond | ADI ADIN1200 Industrial Ethernet PHY LEARN MORE Figure 3: Industry 4.0 manufacturing's most exciting advances are robots and collaborative robots (cobots), which are capable of working alongside humans on the factory floor. (Source: Analog Devices Inc.) 3 intuit their surroundings three-dimensionally, ensuring a high degree of safety while performing repetitive and complex tasks. Partners such as ADI can combine different sensing modalities, including vision and time of flight, with connectivity technology such as Deterministic Ethernet to transfer data in real- time and have more precise control of robots and cobots. According to one report, the use of these tools could help drive an estimated net savings of $40.4 billion (USD) per year for U.S. manufacturers. For manufacturers, taking that next step into the future depends on further investment in the technology underpinning advances in factory automation and flexibility. At the sensor-driven level where the physical world meets the digital one, it's here that the gains promised by Industry 4.0 are truly being realized. "WE ARE THE SOURCE OF DATA. WE ARE WHERE DATA IS BORN. FOR 50 YEARS, WE'VE BEEN THE COMPANY PEOPLE RELY ON TO SOLVE THEIR TOUGHEST ENGINEERING CHALLENGES. OUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SPACE IS THE BASIS FOR ALL OF THE FUTURE ADVANCEMENTS WE'RE BUILDING WITH OUR CLIENTS TODAY." — Martin Cotter, Senior Vice President of Industrial, Consumer & Multi-Markets | Analog Devices