Smart Factory
Smart Factory (German " intelligent factory ") is a term from research in the field of manufacturing technology. It is part of the high-tech strategy of the German federal government as part of the future Industry 4.0 project . It describes the vision of a production environment in which production facilities and logistics systems largely organize themselves without human intervention. The networking of embedded production systems and dynamic business and engineering processes enables the profitable production of products even with individual customer requests up to batch size 1. The technical basis are cyber-physical systems , with which both physical production objects and their virtual image in a centralized one System is meant. The Internet of Things is often mentioned in the broader context . Part of this future scenario is still the communication between the product (e.g. workpiece) and the production system: The product itself brings its production information with it in machine-readable form, e.g. B. on an RFID chip. This data is used to control the path of the product through the production plant and the individual production steps. Other transmission technologies such as WLAN, Bluetooth, color coding or QR codes are currently being experimented with.
At universities and research institutions, work is being carried out on the smart factory in the context of so-called model factories.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Industry 4.0 future project . Federal Ministry of Education and Research, accessed on April 29, 2014.
- ↑ Industry 4.0 and digitization 4.0: tips for implementation. Retrieved July 16, 2018 .