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ARC Rapport 35 / 107 AMNYTT #2 ARC Insights, Page 5 IDS brings together the products from Siemens’ Industry Automation, Drive Technology, and Flender mechanical drives as an engineered solution that is fully integrated from inverter to coupling. Horizontal integration on the drive train level provides the benefit of a single source for the motor, Siemens Integrated Drive System Components gear, coupling, inverter, and controls. With IDS, the entire system is purchased from a single source, eliminating multiple relationships and compromises between vendors to help reduce implementation time and costs. Recommendations Based on ARC’s take ways from this year’s Hanover Fair and our related research and analysis, we recommend the following actions for manufacturers: • Evaluate your manufacturing organization to determine where you are on the adoption curve for Industry 4.0. • Robotic mobility will provide a competitive manufacturing advantage in many areas both for replenishment and providing greater utilization of costly capital equipment. Determine a timeline for adopting this technology. • Additive manufacturing offers the potential to enable manufacturers leapfrog many of the current hurdles in manufacturing operations. For further information or to provide feedback on this Insight, please contact your account manager or the author at sspada@arcweb.com and sevans@arcweb.com. ARC Insights are published and copyrighted by ARC Advisory Group. The information is proprietary to ARC and no part may be reproduced without prior permission from ARC. ©2013 • ARC • 3 Allied Drive • Dedham, MA 02026 USA • 781-471-1000 • ARCweb.com 2013