The "cornerstones" of the Digital Factory

The following conditions form the basis for every Digital factory project:

• Approval by the top management

• Personnel capacity of departments and IT
• Project budget
• Acquire comrades-in-arms
• Inform affected projects
• Schedule lead time (depending on scope 1 to 5 years implementation time!)
• Create acceptance in the affected departments

Further factors of success

Set standards

Standardise manufacturing resources und manufacturing processes and make them available in the form of standard modules and libraries

Develop planning functions

Raise, document and optimise planning processes - methods and software are equal-ranking modules

Define workflows

Ensure consistency, milestones and clear role assignment

Implement data integration

Data consolidation along the process chains (products, processes, factories)