The manufacturing landscape is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional factories are evolving into smart factories, leveraging advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and competitiveness. This evolution is part of the broader movement towards smart manufacturing, where digitalisation and automation play pivotal roles.
There are various challenges the everyday manufacturer must adhere to, such as predicting and managing disruptions on both the supply chain and the shop floor. Mass production, standardisation, customisation and collaboration are ever evolving for manufacturers and require support that traditional legacy systems cannot provide.
What are SMART factories? How exactly does their implementation change the manufacturing operation? What can they bring to the table to make life easier for manufacturers?
Read on to learn about the benefits of a smart factory and how it can be a window of opportunity for your manufacturing business…
What is a SMART Factory?
The acronym “SMART'' refers to “self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology.”
The SMART Factory is grounded in the idea of a manufacturing production facility and cyber-physical coordination systems organised without human intervention, but instead with communication through the Internet of Things (IoT).
With a SMART factory, all your devices and machines become interconnected through IoT and the exchange of data. By approaching manufacturing with a modern mindset, SMART factories fuse operational and informational technologies to make logic-based decisions with an unprecedented level of automation.
Data from both the machines that run your factories and the SMART devices your staff use can be integrated and analysed. The information mined from this can improve efficiency and automate repetitive processes. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, means that accessibility to The Cloud, up-to-date software, and IoT sensors make SMART factories not only a more practical choice but an easily implementable one.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for manufacturing, a cutting-edge 4th Industrial software system for the assembly line, can help manufacturers implement intelligent manufacturing.
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