What is the 4.0 expertise for?

The appraisal is mandatory if the cost of the goods exceeds 300,000 euros (300,000).
The legal representative of the company draws up a document that certifies the implementation complies with the industry 4.0 requirements, taking direct responsibility for it if an inspection detects anomalies in the declared goods.
However, our advice is to rely on an expert registered in the register of industrial experts or engineers who has skills in the field of industry 4.0 and who responds if there is any discrepancy between the declaration and the asset that must receive tax breaks for industry 4.0.

The expertise required by law can be of 3 types:

• Simple: It is a report that contains the information that was collected during the investigation and is drawn up and digitally signed by the technician who carried out the inspection, it is ascertained via PEC or timestamp, the responsibility for this expertise does not fall on the technician but on the legal representative of the company.
• Sworn: The technician who draws up the document assumes responsibility for what is declared, responding criminally in the event that the information reported in the report is not exact.
• Juror: The expert report drawn up and sworn by the technician who carried out the inspection is signed in front of a public official (it is the greatest security for a company that wants to take advantage of the 4.0 facilities).

The certified or sworn appraisal is mandatory for costs exceeding €300,000.

The cost of an appraisal varies according to the cost of the investment and the structure of the asset to be surveyed and drafted in the appraisal. DevIBrain’s consultants will be able to help you in all the bureaucratic parts connected to the 4.0 appraisal.

The requirements that must be met are:

• Systems for sustainability and quality assurance
• Computerized systems or suitable actuation sensors have to control the functioning of capital goods.
• Workplace safety systems through the integration of devices for the interaction between man and machine.

For machines must have the following characteristics:

Have a logic controller installed whether it be a PLC or a CNC;

• They must be interconnected to the IT systems present in the installation plant;
• Implement automation with other machines in the production cycle;
• Install a man-machine interface for operator use that is easy to understand;
• Comply with current regulations in terms of health, hygiene and safety in the workplace;

They must also comply with at least two of the following integrations:

• Monitoring of working conditions throughout the production cycle through the use of sensors and process data;
• Implementation of remote assistance for the purpose of carrying out maintenance even remotely;
• Simulation of behavior within the process;

Software, on the other hand, as the only requirement, must be interconnected with material goods, obviously this is the basis of the concept of industry 4.0.
In particular, the software that meets the requirements for 4.0 are:

• Management for production control;
• Digital archiving systems of technical data on PCs or servers, better known as Engineering Data Management – EDM;
• Monitoring and data collection software for a specific product, also called Product Data Management – PDM;
• Software that manage processes, documents and data for the life cycle of a product or service called Product Life Management – PLM;
• Data science software in order to analyze large amounts of data (Big data), this type of software is called BIG DATA Analytics;
• Software for the supervision and monitoring of machines through the use of operator panels also called Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition – SCADA;
• Management systems for the control of company production activities which take the name of Manufacturing Execution System – MES;
• Machinery maintenance management software, Computerized Maintenance Management System – CMMS;
• Internet of Things software Internet of Things – IoT
• Software for interconnection between sensors and devices in the industrial field – IoT-Link;
• Cloud software to facilitate the use of data from anywhere as well as taking advantage of scalable resources based on the calculation and storage required
• Software for monitoring the operating parameters of the machines and which integrate with the software for the daily activities of a company Enterprise Resource Planning – ERP
• Software for graphical visualization of data through easy-to-understand graphical interfaces such as graphs, dashboards, etc. – UIX Design