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Foreword Bridging the physical and digital world for breakthrough innovation Analog Devices converts real-world phenomena into actionable insight, fundamentally impacting how leading companies will change the future. We create unmatched technologies and solutions to solve our customers' problems in instrumentation, automation, communications, healthcare, automotive and numerous other industries. Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, www.mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 27 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit www.mouser.com. The digital factory is fuelled by data that is transforming operations, driving productivity, and increasing utilisation. Through data aggregation and analysis, actionable insights emerge which unlock hidden capacity and identify opportunities for process optimisation while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency and reducing raw material usage. The factory connectivity network is the backbone of the digital factory. ADI's world leading, precision measurement and sensing technology is used throughout the digital factory to continuously sense, measure, and interpret factory assets. With the explosion of sensors deployed throughout the factory, often in harsh environments, it is essential to ensure that the data from these sensors is transmitted reliably and in real time. This requires low latency, time bound, low power, and robust industrial connectivity technology. ADI's wired and wireless industrial connectivity and cybersecurity technology enables new high bandwidth data streams and control commands to be captured reliably and production cells to become securely interconnected. In addition, ADI's expanded portfolio of tailored high efficiency and low noise industrial power systems provide multiple levels of power to drive sensors and actuators, while reducing heat dissipation in space constrained designs. In this eBook, experts draw on ADI's rich history in industrial automation as well as their comprehensive system level expertise to explore how key enabling technologies are addressing the challenges faced on the path to a truly digital factory, powered by data. By Fiona Treacy, Senior Director, Industrial Automation, Analog Devices 5 Leading the Way to the Digital Factory