Factory of the future White Paper

IEC

List of abbreviations 7

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Glossary 9

Section 1 Introduction 11

1.1 Scope of this White Paper 11

Section 2 Current manufacturing environment 14

Section 3 Concepts of the factory of the future 17

3.1 Open value chain 17

3.2 Flexible production 18

3.3 Human-centered manufacturing 18

3.4 Business models 20

3.4.1 Crowdsourcing 20

3.4.2 Anything-as-a-service 21

3.4.3 Symbiotic ecosystem 22

3.5 Local initiatives 22

3.5.1 Advanced manufacturing (US) 23

3.5.2 e-Factory (Japan) 23

3.5.3 Industrie 4.0 (Germany) 24

3.5.4 Intelligent Manufacturing (China) 25

Section 4 Driving technologies 26

4.1 Technology challenges/needs 26

4.1.1 Connectivity and interoperability 26

4.1.2 Seamless factory of the future system integration 28

4.1.3 Architecture for integrating existing systems 28

4.1.4 Modelling and simulation 29

4.1.5 Security and safety 30

4.2 Enabling technologies 32

4.2.1 Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communication 33

4.2.2 Cloud-based application infrastructure and middleware 34

4.2.3 Data analytics 35

4.2.4 Smart robotics 37

4.2.5 Integrated product-production simulation 38

4.2.6 Additive manufacturing/3D printing 40

4.2.7 Additional factory of the future technologies 40

Section 5 Market readiness 41

5.1 Implementation of a systems perspective 41

5.2 Overcome “resistance to change” in traditional production environments 41

5.3 Financial issues 42

5.4 Migration strategies 42

Section 6 Predictions 43

Section 7 Conclusions and recommendations 45

7.1 General 45

7.2 Data 46

7.3 People 46

7.4 Technology 47

7.5 Standards 48

Annex A – References 49

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