Smart Manufacturing in the Digital Factory.

The digitization of production towards Smart Factory presents great challenges, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They need to integrate new digital solutions into running production systems and involve employees in the transformation process.
This is not only about the fusion of IT and production technology, but ultimately about a fundamental change in the entire corporate culture and structure. Because transformation does not stop at the factory gates. People, machines and products communicate permanently with each other along the entire value chain. This optimizes the processes and leads to completely new business models.

The road to achieve this, however, depends on many very companyspecific factors. Those “three simple steps” to the Smart Factory do not exist. So, this white paper is more to be understood as guidance and a collection of resources than as a manual.