Industry 4.0: Solutions for Safety and Automation

The 2017 Budget Law, with the aim of supporting investments related to the “Industry 4.0” initiative, identifies the tangible assets eligible for 250% Hyper Depreciation and the intangible assets benefiting from 140% Super Depreciation. These also include Tecnel’s technological solutions focused on safety and process automation.

Industry 4.0: eligible assets and incentives

There are two key points in the 2017 Budget Law regarding “Industry 4.0”:

• the extension of 140% Super Depreciation, aimed at corporate purchases and investments in capital goods, already provided for by the 2016 Budget Law;
• the introduction of the new 2017 250% Hyper Depreciation, which allows companies to depreciate a higher value based on the purchase cost of new tangible and instrumental assets (i.e., assets not previously used either by the seller or by other parties) linked to business digitalization projects.

The complete list of assets eligible for the incentive is provided in Annexes A and B.

Tecnel technology for Industry 4.0

Many Tecnel solutions can benefit from the incentives introduced by the Budget Law. These include:

• Informo IP, the multi-device, multi-access web platform designed to inform, organize, and coordinate staff.
• InfoBoard multitouch, for collecting, interpreting, and presenting company data.
• Sicuro, the personal protection device for lone workers.
• Call devices: pagers, DECT portable phones, and alphanumeric receivers.