TY - JOUR
T1 - Smart factory in Industry 4.0
AU - Shi, Zhan
AU - Xie, Yongping
AU - Xue, Wei
AU - Chen, Yong
AU - Fu, Liuliu
AU - Xu, Xiaobo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - The transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing intrigues the profound and lasting effect on the future manufacturing worldwide. Industry 4.0 was proposed for advancing manufacturing to realize short product life cycles and extreme mass customization in a cost-efficient way. As the heart of Industry 4.0, smart factory integrates physical technologies and cyber technologies and makes the involved technologies more complex and precise in order to improve performance, quality, controllability, management, and transparency of manufacturing processes. So far, leading manufacturers have begun the journey toward implementing smart factory. However, most firms still lack insight into the challenges and resources for implementing smart factory. As such, this paper identifies the requirements and key challenges, investigates available new technologies, reviews existing studies that have been done for smart factory, and further provides guidance for manufacturers to implementing smart factory in the context of Industry 4.0.
AB - The transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing intrigues the profound and lasting effect on the future manufacturing worldwide. Industry 4.0 was proposed for advancing manufacturing to realize short product life cycles and extreme mass customization in a cost-efficient way. As the heart of Industry 4.0, smart factory integrates physical technologies and cyber technologies and makes the involved technologies more complex and precise in order to improve performance, quality, controllability, management, and transparency of manufacturing processes. So far, leading manufacturers have begun the journey toward implementing smart factory. However, most firms still lack insight into the challenges and resources for implementing smart factory. As such, this paper identifies the requirements and key challenges, investigates available new technologies, reviews existing studies that have been done for smart factory, and further provides guidance for manufacturers to implementing smart factory in the context of Industry 4.0.
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - intelligent manufacturing
KW - smart factory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087305825&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/sres.2704
DO - 10.1002/sres.2704
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087305825
SN - 1092-7026
VL - 37
SP - 607
EP - 617
JO - Systems Research and Behavioral Science
JF - Systems Research and Behavioral Science
IS - 4
ER -