As part of my research, I am currently looking for manufacturing companies that have adopted and implemented Industry 4.0 - Smart Factory concept.
Many manufacturing compaies have implemented Industry 4.0 technologies to a certain extent. The question is to what extent. Examples for highly developed plants in Germany include Siemens at Amberg, Bosch at Homburg, or Festo at Esslingen, among many further. However, those mainly include single plants. It remains a huge challenge to integrate an entire production network into Industry 4.0, within an enterprise and also with its suppliers.
A showcase regarding the support of lean principles by Industry 4.0 can be found at SEW: https://www.sew-eurodrive.de/company/your_success/future_trends/industry-40/basics/showcase_factory/showcase_factory.html
Dear Julian M. Müller and Johannes Fisel
Thank you for your informative response in identifying such industries. I have reviewed quite a number of articles and what I have discovered is that most of the manufacturing industries are only having test beds/pilot studies and it seems as if there is no real applications except from the automobile industries.
Sir Johannes Fisel I will look at the link you sent, hopefully I can be able to visit this company and identify other as well for my research purposes as it is a prerequisite for my research project.
Thank you.
Kind regards
Meshack
In India’s the first Smart factory is being set up at Bengaluru. The smart factory powered by data exchange in manufacturing and the Internet of Things (IoT). Adopting Smart manufacturing, analytics and IoT will give a new rise for leasing of life to industrialization in India. And the state Andhra Pradesh in India aims to turn into an Internet of Things (IoT) hub by 2020.
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