With increasing competition and changing customer demands, manufacturers must innovate to ensure that they stay ahead.
All work areas, production lines, material storage facilities, etc. should be designed to perform to the highest rate and the corresponding shortest cycle time. When designing a plant layout it is necessary to take into account all the functions within the business.
In manufacturing, networking and transparency provide for a paradigm shift from “centralised” to “local” production. Today, manufacturing already works with “embedded systems”, which collect and pass on specific data. In the “factory of the future”, a central computer organizes the intelligent network-ing of these subsystems into cyber-physical systems (CPS).
The systems are able to work with increasing independence. Through human-machine inter-faces, the physical and the virtual worlds nevertheless work closely together: The human defines the requirements, while the process management takes place autonomously.
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