Smart Factory - A Step towards the Next Generation of Manufacturing
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TL;DR
The research steps and future work in giving reality to the envisioned Smart Factory at the Universitat Stuttgart are presented.
Abstract
The Stuttgart Model of adaptive, transformable and virtual factories, already implemented in German basic research performed at the Universität Stuttgart has been extended with a new perspective, the so-called "Smart Factory". The Smart Factory approach is an new dimension of multi-scale manufacturing by using the stat-of-the-art ubiquitous/pervasive computing technologies and tools. The Smart Factory represents a context-sensitive manufacturing environment that can handle turbulences in real-time production using decentralized information and communication structures for an optimum management of production processes. This paper presents our research steps and future work in giving reality to the envisioned Smart Factory at the Universität Stuttgart.