Smart factory in the context of 4th industrial revolution: challenges and opportunities for Romania

5th ModTech International Conference - Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering

Pirvu, B.C.^1 ; Zamfirescu, C.B.^1

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Engineering Faculty, Department of Industrial Engineering and, Emil Cioran Street, No. 4, Sibiu

550025, Romania^1

关键词: Competitive costs;    Cyber-Physical System (CPS);    Industrial revolutions;    Just in time;    Manufacturing companies;    New approaches;    Production system;    Short reaction time;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/227/1/012094/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/227/1/012094

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Manufacturing companies, independent of operation sector and size, must be able to produce lot size one products, just-in-time at a competitive cost. Coping with this high adaptability and short reaction times proves to be very challenging. New approaches must be taken into consideration for designing modular, intelligent and cooperative production systems which are easy to integrate with the entire factory. The coined term for this network of intelligent interacting artefacts system is cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS is often used in the context of Industry 4.0 - or what many consider the forth industrial revolution. The paper presents an overview of key technological and social requirements to map the Smart Factory vision into reality. Finally, global and Romanian specific challenges hindering the vision of a true Smart Factory to become reality are presented.