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Smart Factory Insights Report 2021
The Smart Factory Insights Report is part of IoT Analytics’ ongoing coverage of Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 topics (Industrial IoT Research work stream). The information presented in this report is based on extensive primary and secondary research, including 21 interviews with smart factory technology vendors, experts, and end users conducted between May 2021 and July 2021.
The document includes a definition of smart factory, a research perspective on common smart factory goals, use cases, key smart factory enablers, in-depth case studies, drivers, trends, and challenges.
Questions answered in this report:
- How have the goals of manufacturing evolved?
- How do production characteristics vary across different types of industries, such as process, discrete, and hybrid manufacturing?
- What are the different goals of today’s factories?
- What role do processes and continuous process improvement methods (e.g.: Lean, Six Sigma) play in smart factories?
- What is the significance of employee engagement and workforce empowerment in smart factory initiatives?
- What are the ways in which technology enables smart factories?
- What are the different methods of data ingestion for a smart factory?
- What are digital maturity models for smart factories, and how can they be used?
- How have different companies deployed smart factories?
- What are the key challenges and drivers of smart factory projects?
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- Complete insights report in PDF
- Smart factories projects list 2021 in EXCEL
- Complete insights report in PPT
- 1 hour discussion with the analyst team
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163 page PDF, 1x EXCEL- 1–5 named users within a particular department and country
- Complete insights report in PDF
- Smart factories projects list 2021 in EXCEL
- Complete insights report in PPT
- 1 hour discussion with the analyst team
Enterprise Premium License
163 page PDF, PPT, 1x EXCEL- Report may be distributed to all employees of the enterprise
- Complete insights report in PDF
- Smart factories projects list 2021 in EXCEL
- Complete insights report in PPT
- 1 hour discussion with the analyst team
At a glance:
Factories have been evolving in tandem with technology innovation. The rise of Industry 4.0 has been fundamental to the development of next-generation factories, often referred to as “smart factories.” This report aims to provide the reader with a holistic view of smart factories, starting with a definition and then deep diving into key aspects, such as smart factory enablers, case study examples, and drivers and challenges.
A smart factory refers to the transformation of people, processes, and enabling technologies at a production site, accompanied by the use of data.
Each production characteristic has multiple subgroups, and there are different types of factories within each subgroup.
A list of 80 smart factories around the world is included (only Team User and Enterprise Premium licenses)
Selected companies from the report:
Siemens, Schneider Electric, Bonfiglioli, SEW Eurodrive, Alibaba, Kalbe Morinaga, Nokia, AGCO, BMW, Foxconn, and many others.
Related Reading:
IoT Analytics’ blog post“ What are smart factories? 7 misconceptions and a definition” is derived from the report.
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