Structure of digital and smart factories of the Industry 4.0

Abstract

The current task of creating digital factories of the Industry 4.0 through the example of digital factories and smart factories engaged in the item designing is considered. The scheme of competences for the Industry 4.0 company is presented, based on the experience and the performance of the existing companies of the Industry 3.0. The digital factory scheme with project components and its informative support is presented. The smart factory scheme with production components is also given. Based on the results of the analysis of the digital design and manufacturing processes, the set of unique components providing information support to the project and production activity of enterprises is proposed. Implementing general components in the form of ready-to-use services deployed in the community cloud is proposed. Unification of the cloud services components is efficient for the Industry 4.0 companies which are parts of one virtual factory.