Articles tagged as digital factory

Why Circular Manufacturing Needs Automation, AI, and Modular Design to Compete
· Additive Manufacturing

Why Circular Manufacturing Needs Automation, AI, and Modular Design to Compete

Circular manufacturing, the practice of designing products and production systems to eliminate waste, extend asset life, and recover materials at end of use, is moving from aspirational concept to operational imperative. Regulatory pressure, raw material volatility, and customer demand for sustainable products are forcing manufacturers to rethink linear take-make-dispose models. Yet achieving true circularity at […]

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4 Steps to Building a Digital Factory
· Smart Manufacturing

4 Steps to Building a Digital Factory

Manufacturers, from automotive to electronics, recognize the need to evolve their factories into flexible, customer-centric operations. The benefits are too strong to ignore. Once digitally transformed, factories can bring information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) together to deliver the actionable intelligence they need to improve performance, increase economic returns and respond more quickly to […]

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3 Practical Ways to Transform Brownfield Plants into Digital Factories
· Connected Industry

3 Practical Ways to Transform Brownfield Plants into Digital Factories

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), industries around the world are undergoing a major digital transformation. In their 2017 research, Capgemini reported that smart factories could contribute an annual added value of $500 billion to $1.5 trillion to the world economy in the next five years. In parallel, manufacturers predicted that overall […]

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Industrie 4.0 Is All About Speed
· Connected Industry

Industrie 4.0 Is All About Speed

Visit four doctors, and you’ll come home with five diagnoses. This saying can be transferred to the term Industry 4.0, where everybody has its own definition.Back in 2011 when the term Industrie 4.0 was introduced by the German government institution BMBF, the idea was very unique. It describes the fourth industrial revolution (after steam, mass […]

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