The Digital Factory is a technology, which is of interest to manufacturing enterprises with complex products and processes. Among these count in particular companies in the automotive industry, the aviation industry, the plant and machine construction industry or the electronics industry.
The general aim is the reduction of time-to-market with concurrently lower costs and better product and process quality.
Main aims of the Digital Factory
Accelerating planning processes and reducing costs
Prevention of planning errors through virtual safeguarding
Reduction of expenditure for data and information acquisition
Automation of routine jobs
Greater planning efficiency through standardisation of methods, processes and information
Increase the quality of planning
Virtual identification of product and process quality at an early stage
Prevention of product and process changes
Consolidated database for all planning partners
Controlling product and process complexity
Increase of transparency with regard to product variants and the effect thereof on the process
Improvement of communication with development partners and suppliers
The Digital Factory model serves as a communication platform
Steeper start-up curve at lower costs
Reduction of start-up problems through anticipated virtual commissioning
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