smart factories
Connected production facilities
Smart factories are manufacturing facilities that use interconnected digital technologies—sensors, automation, artificial intelligence, and data analytics—to optimize production with minimal human intervention.
Machines communicate with each other, monitor their own performance, and adjust operations in real time.
The concept is central to Industry 4.0, the current era of industrial automation: The company converted three plants to smart factories last year.
- IoTInterconnected smart device ecosystem
- roboticsAutomaton design field
- sensorsDevices that detect input
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- automationSelf-operating system design
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