Several years ago, the concept called "Digital Convergence" had been developed, whose primary objective was to eliminate: paper documents, whether worksheets, forms written with production planning, etc., that is, to move towards which became known as the “paperless” or “paperless” systems in English, which meant, without the support of printed documentation, understood as documentation entirely in digital format or also known as electronic format.
The main industries adopted this concept of digital convergence, but they took the goals further, generating a complete digital "operation", they extracted data from multiple sources, including devices and processes, and made it digital and finally through digital applications they analyzed that data, the correlated with other data sources and thus obtained intelligence about the processes and the business, making them more efficient and improving the quality of the products and therefore the user experience and all this with digital information
This Digital Operation, which was nothing more than the adoption of digital convergence / transformation in industrial operations with imperatives of improvement in performance, quality, reliability and increased support to the labor resource increasing the value of the organization, is considered as the future of the industrial operations according to globally relevant consultancies with Gartner
Recently, with the advent of new technologies such as extensive digitization in devices and increased processing capacity combined with miniaturization, computer "virtualization", "cloud computing", etc., dramatically progress has been made in obtaining of process data and the ability to analyze them, even at their point of origin. Likewise, the processing and storage capacity has been increased, allowing the introduction of predictive models and artificial intelligence, all this has generated a revolution regarding the understanding, automation and control of industrial processes that today we identify as the "Digital Transformation of industrial processes "
