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Smart Factory: Open-Source Industry 4.0 Robot Arm with YOLO Vision and Siemens PLC Integratiion

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Published May 15, 2026

Original author: hadefuwaOriginal source (new tab)

Smart Factory: Open-Source Industry 4.0 Robot Arm with YOLO Vision and Siemens PLC Integratiion

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Introduction Industrial automation has long been the domain of expensive, proprietary systems — PLC programming environments that cost thousands of dollars in licenses, robot controllers that only talk to approved hardware, and vision systems that require specialist integrators. The gap between what a small manufacturer, a university lab, or an independent engineer can afford and what a proper Industry 4.0 production cell requires has historically been wide. Smart Factory is an open-source project by Hadefuwa that bridges that gap. It is a complete smart factory automation system built…

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