Smart Manufacturing

Lecture 02

Instructor: Dr. Farshid Najafi

School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering

Simon Fraser University

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Factory of Future (Siemens)

Source: Siemens
Factory of Future (Siemens)
• Autonomous systems to determine how to manufacture a product without extensive programming

• Mass customization and Individual products (Customer satisfaction and demanding and dynamic markets )

• Economical production considering raw materials and processes (Efficient use of material and resources)

• Not all tasks will be solved autonomously, human intervention needed when AI reaches to its limits

• Autonomous systems check the safety aspects of all human-machine interactions

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Factory of Future (Siemens)
• Additive manufacturing to produce complex shapes is not possible to produce with traditional manufacturing
methods.

• Intelligent production system layouts of the production plan including tools and processes and also timing

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Industry 4.0 - The Fourth Industrial
Revolution

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Industry 4.0 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Smart Manufacturing
Facts
• Each Product finding its way through the production line independently and separately from other products.

• In smart factories machines, raw materials, and products communicate and cooperate during production.
They communicate with each other through I-IoT technologies.

• Highly flexible and resource friendly mass production.

• Bottle filling production line:

 Each bottle contains an RFID chip containing information about which liquid, which lid, which barcode, etc.
An example of a highly flexible manufacturing line that can rapidly adapt to a changing market.
Industry 4.0, The Fourth Industrial
Revolution
Industry 4.0, The Fourth Industrial
Revolution
• Centralized production moving toward decentralized production.

• Resource efficient and customer-centered.

• Orders will steer themselves over the entire value chain.

• Raw material, machines, and humans become connected through networks to improve efficiency

• Machines equipped with sensors to collect data about status, location, and usage patterns toward the optimal
use of machines (predictive maintenance)

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Cyber-physical Production
Systems
Cyber-physical Production Systems Facts
• A fast-organizing factory that entirely configures and organizes itself and responds to changing requirement
where humans and machines collaborate.

• Manufacturing of a product starts in a virtual environment with the help of simulation technology (digital twins).

• The cyber-physical production system checks to see if the production is feasible.

• The machines in the factory provide detailed information about their production capabilities and even
constraints.

• Based on this information, the system generates a digital twin of the product and compares the required
production Steps with the production capabilities of all machines and humans.
Cyber-physical Production Systems
Facts
• The machines gets the information about the product and production steps directly from the digital twin.

• The cyber-physical system dynamically calculate all necessary steps and carries the production
autonomously (Products Steer their own production).

• Skills of the machines should be enhanced through machine AL and ML, and intelligent sensors to ultimately
enhance the Quality of the product.

• Safety algorithms are also developed to ensure that humans and machines can work safely together.

This leads to faster, more individualized, and more efficient manufacturing system.
Future of Manufacturing (Nokia)

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Future of Manufacturing

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