Accelerating the Path to Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 promises exponential improvements in productivity, flexibility and safety by harnessing big advances in edge-to-cloud computing, analytics, software configurable systems, and more. The benefits are clear, but how do you get there? Where do you invest today, and how do you future-proof for whatever’s ahead?
We can help you now, with insights and answers that will get you and your customers moving full speed on the path to Industry 4.0. The wide range of our analog to digital capabilities – sense, measure, connect, interpret, power and secure – combined with our deep domain expertise make us an invaluable ally in solving the today’s toughest cyber-physical challenges with a future-ready pathway for tomorrow.
Explore some of the ways we can help you make the move from now to next, smarter and faster than you ever imagined possible.
See where ADI is accelerating the transition to Industry 4.0 for our customers. Read below for more detail.
Now to Next
Our Industry 4.0 Executive Guide offers six effective business plays to make the most of today’s Industry 4.0 opportunities. Get practical insights about what's possible today, what's coming tomorrow, and the smartest paths to get you there.

The changing factory floor: From edge to cloud, unlocking opportunities today
Brendan O’Dowd, General Manager of Analog Devices Industrial Business, on how our unique knowledge of industry’s needs across the edge-to-cloud signal chain is generating powerful new opportunities for our customers.
Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds for Industry 4.0
Kevin Carlin, VP of Industrial Automation & Energy, discusses how to extract more insights from operations and increase productivity. Learn how ADI is enabling the industry to transition from legacy infrastructure to this new digital world.
Flexible Universal Analog IO
Accelerate your time to market by building modular designs with software I/O that can easily be reconfigured for diverse projects and customers. You’ll reduce the number of designs required, save on build and setup time—and you’ll only need to certify elements once. Our first-to-market software configurable I/O delivers easy-to-configure channels and dramatically simplified wiring, freeing up time for more advanced development. For your customers, it means production flows that traditionally take hours to reconfigure can be done in minutes!
ADI Chronous™ Scalable Ethernet Connectivity
Cloud computing and a robust communications infrastructure are the lifeblood of a connected factory. Today’s networks struggle with mushrooming traffic loads and interoperability challenges across myriad protocols. They also need to be able to perform accurately and reliably in harsh, time-critical environments. ADI Chronous takes an integrated hardware and software approach and solves these and other thorny interoperability issues, enables critical deterministic performance to the edge, and ensures networks are TSN-ready – all without expensive capital upgrades.
Condition-Based Monitoring
By maximizing machine uptime and efficiency, the use of condition-based monitoring in automation is already delivering on some of the productivity gains promised by Industry 4.0. Our MEMS vibration sensors technology combined with our precision converter, linear, isolation and power technologies is enabling high quality machine health data to be transformed into actionable insights.
Intelligent Robots and Cobots
Many of the efficiency and flexibility gains from Industry 4.0 will come from the use of more robots, cobots, and other advanced machines. All of which will rely on even more advanced motor control solutions built on systems design, innovative technologies, and strategic partnerships.
Cyber Security: Securing the Edge
In a market that is traditionally slow to change, Industry 4.0 has been embraced at a record pace. ADI’s mission is to enable our customers to more rapidly adopt Industry 4.0 solutions by extending the secure edge and making it easier to implement cyber secure systems.
Start designing your next Industrial Cyber Security Solution
Learn how today's breakthrough technologies are making a global impact
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SmartMesh
Discover a proven and robust wireless solution that meets the requirements for Industry 4.0 applications. SmartMesh and SmartMesh WirelessHART are the only wireless networks designed for the harshest industrial environments where low power, reliability, resilience, and scalability are key.
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Safety
A system is not smart if it is not safe. Functional safety is ubiquitous in automation systems with strict standardization and certifications requirements.
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Power by Linear
Form factor, efficiency and EMI. In the data-rich and sensor-filled factories of Industry 4.0, these performance metrics have never been more critical. Discover how ADI’s unique technologies can deliver high results in each area, without compromising performance.
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