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We conducted a questionnaire with 500 people involved in promoting the conversion of regular factories into smart factories. We introduce here the issues we found from the questionnaire results and the solutions aimed at resolving those issues.
Digital Transformation (DX) and Murata: How to Face and Deepen Thinking about DX?
Goto, who is in charge of building cyber-physical systems (CPS) and promotes digital transformation (DX) in the monozukuri field, talks about the future of the manufacturing industry brought about by DX.
Smart Factories: Giving Form to Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry
We explain here trends in the use of the latest technologies for decarbonization, which is one of the mega-trends surrounding the manufacturing industry. Digital transformation in the manufacturing industry, which is being tackled in smart factories, and decarbonization efforts are two sides of the same coin. It will be important to introduce and utilize advanced information processing technologies such as IoT, AI, and digital twins as a means of realizing RE100-compliant factories.
It has been a while since the expression Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) started spreading and eventually became established, and more and more sophisticated and diverse solutions and use cases have emerged. Nevertheless, for a variety of reasons, there are still factories that have not yet begun to implement IIoT or have deployed it only partially for certain processes. In this article, we discuss some of the problems or bottlenecks commonly encountered when deploying IIoT, explain how to choose solutions you can use now for making a small start or scaling up operations, and provide some related hints.
Smart Factories: Giving Form to Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry
Robots used in plants are becoming smarter and more advanced. They are not simply automating routine tasks but independently performing situation-specific tasks, and moving in a coordinated manner with the movements of people. This article introduces scenarios in which cutting-edge robots are used and the roles that they play using automobile and semiconductor plants as examples.
Smart Factory Case Study
We introduce the importance of communication to solve issues on-site, realizations obtained from converting into a smart factory, and other aspects in Part 2.
Smart Factory Case Study
We introduce here the process when promoting the conversion of a regular factory into a smart factory and the keys to promoting that. We do that based on the example of Iwate Murata Manufacturing, which has eliminated the gap in the proficiency of workers to achieve task standardization and productivity improvement through conversion into a smart factory.
Smart Factory Case Study
In Part 2 of this article, we introduce initiatives on predictive maintenance and visualization of the equipment operating situation derived from realizations obtained in the EMS. We also look at the clues to cultivating an awareness to make improvements in the manufacturing site that forms the key to converting a regular factory into a smart factory.
Smart Factory Case Study
We introduce here the process when promoting the conversion of a regular factory into a smart factory and the keys to promoting same through the efforts of Komoro Murata Manufacturing.
Smart Factories: Giving Form to Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry
We give an explanation here about new transportation methods that have evolved with the progress of AI and IoT that are being utilized in smart factories. In addition to the work time of each process, the transportation of works in progress between processes and the replenishment of parts and materials have a major impact on improving productivity overall in lines that perform variable-mix variable-lot production. The use of smart AMRs has expanded in place of AGVs and other conventional transportation means.
