Industry 4.0: the Future Concepts and New Visions of Factory of the Future Development

AbstractNetworks of sensors for different measured variables increasingly form the backbone for a variety of applications in, for example, industry, mechanical engineering and environmental monitoring. The merging of data (sensor fusion) plays a central role in the application and is generally a well investigated research area. However, the consideration of metrological basic principles such as calibration, measurement uncertainties and thus traceability to the SI system of units for comparable and reproducible measurement results has been investigated comparatively little. This article discusses fundamental questions, presents approaches to solutions from the currently running EMPIR project “Metrology for the Factory of the Future” (Met4FoF) and gives an outlook on future fields of research. The article focuses on the field of application of the so-called “Industry 4.0” as the “factory of the future”.

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Industry 4.0: The Smart Factory of the Future in Beverage Industry

Production and Management of Beverages ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-815260-7.00015-8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 439-469 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Semih Otles ◽

Aysegul Sakalli

Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Smart Factory ◽

Beverage Industry ◽

The Future ◽

Factory Of The Future

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Challenges Associated with Implementing 5G in Manufacturing

Telecom ◽

10.3390/telecom1010005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 48-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Eoin O’Connell ◽

Denis Moore ◽

Thomas Newe

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Smart Manufacturing ◽

5G Networks ◽

Security Issues ◽

Technical Requirements ◽

The Future ◽

Factory Of The Future ◽

Industry Sectors

5G networks will change several industries, including manufacturing. 5G has the potential to become the future communication platform of choice for many industries and in particular the manufacturing sector, driving the future of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. The vision of a “factory of the future” is now tangible for many industry sectors. The ability to cope with increased bandwidth, latency requirements, big-data generated from more connected equipment and the data processing required on the factory floor is a massive challenge for industry. This paper discusses how 5G can impact a manufacturing environment, the standards and technical requirements needed to meet the demands of utilizing 5G, and the security issues that need to be addressed if planning a 5G deployment.

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The Future of Factories: Different Trends

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11219980 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (21) ◽

pp. 9980

Author(s):

Giulio Salierno ◽

Letizia Leonardi ◽

Giacomo Cabri

Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Business Processes ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Radical Change ◽

Cloud Manufacturing ◽

Smart Manufacturing ◽

The Future ◽

Factory Of The Future ◽

Traditional Manufacturing

The technological advancements promote the rise of the fourth industrial revolution, where key terms are efficiency, innovation, and enterprises’ digitalization. Market globalization, product mass customization, and more complex products need to reflect on changing the actual design methods and developing business processes and methodologies that have to be data-driven, AI-assisted, smart, and service-oriented. Therefore, there is a great interest in experimenting with emerging technologies and evaluating how they impact the actual business processes. This paper reports a comparison among the major trends in the digitalization of a Factory of the Future, in conjunction with the two major strategic programs of Industry 4.0 and China 2025. We have focused on these two programs because we have had experience with them in the context of the FIRST H2020 project. European industrialists identify the radical change in the traditional manufacturing production process as the rise of Industry 4.0. Conversely, China mainland launched its strategic plan in China 2025 to promote smart manufacturing to digitalize traditional manufacturing processes. The main contribution of this review paper is to report about a study, conducted and part of the aforementioned FIRST project, which aimed to investigate major trends in applying for both programs in terms of technologies and their applications for the factory’s digitalization. In particular, our analysis consists of the comparison between Digital Factory, Virtual Factory, Smart Manufacturing, and Cloud Manufacturing. We analyzed their essential characteristics, the operational boundaries, the employed technologies, and the interoperability offered at each factory level for each paradigm. Based on this analysis, we report the building blocks in terms of essential technologies required to develop the next generation of a factory of the future, as well as some of the interoperability challenges at a different scale, for enabling inter-factories communications between heterogeneous entities.

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Obecny stan badań nad Zagładą na Ukrainie

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały ◽

10.32927/zzsim.558 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 889-915

Author(s):

Anna Abakunkova

Keyword(s):

Future Development ◽

The State ◽

Significant Part ◽

Educational Organizations ◽

Major Research ◽

Holocaust Studies ◽

The Holocaust ◽

The Future

The article examines the state of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine for the period of 2010 – beginning of 2014. The review analyzes activities of major research and educational organizations in Ukraine which have significant part of projects devoted to the Holocaust; main publications and discussions on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including publications of Ukrainian authors in academic European and American journals. The article illustrates contemporary tendencies and conditions of the Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, defines major problems and shows perspectives of the future development of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine.

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Remedies for Breach of Contract: The Future Development of Scots Law in its European and International Context

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.1997.1.2.200 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 200-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hector L MacQueen

Keyword(s):

Future Development ◽

European Contract ◽

Breach Of Contract ◽

International Context ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Current State ◽

The Future ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

International Conventions ◽

Law Commission

This paper,first presented on 21 October 1995 at ajoint seminar ofthe Scottish Law Commission and the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, on the subject of breach of contract, considers the future development of the law in this area, first by considering its history and current state in comparative terms and drawing the conclusion that it is characterised by a mixture of Civilian and Common Law elements; second, by comparing Scots law with the provisions on breach contained in recently published proposals for a harmonised law of contract (the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law prepared by the Lando Commission, and the draft “code”for the United Kingdom prepared on behalf of the English Law Commission by Harvey McGregor in the late 1960s) and in international conventions on the sale of goods. Although Scots law emerges reasonably wellfrom this exercise, there are a number of points to be taken on board in any future reform, as well as some insights into important underlying principles.

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