Like many companies, Intel has evolved over the decades to provide competitive advantages through sophisticated automation—smart manufacturing—which has helped its factories increase product yields and quality, reduced costs, and improve safety. Intel’s smart factories are among those that now use edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable automated control systems with real-time...

The article considers the need to develop a fundamentally new concept of industrial architecture – "smart factory". factors that influence architectural solutions contemporary enterprises are listed. principles forming factories" formulated and unveiled. Examples production facilities meet these given. conclusion about positive impact on high-tech is made.

In this paper OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) is proposed as key element in an approach for tool integration. OSLC enables data exchange and resource linking across tools within smart engineering, assisting thereby factories in behaving smart. According to OSLC’s description, a core specification and several domain specifications assist software developers in implementing stand...

Informational risks in smart factories arise from the growing interconnection of its components, the increasing importance of real-time accessibility and exchange of information, and highly dynamic and complex information networks. Thereby, physical production more and more depends on functioning information networks due to increasing informational dependencies. Accordingly, the operational cap...

The ongoing adoption of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) is accompanied by incredible business process improvements fueled by ground-breaking innovations. Industry 4.0 with smart factories, smart supply chains and smart customer experience has become reality. And Industry 4.0 is also driving business process innovation. This paper deals with the design and governance of t...

Smart technologies play a key role in sustainable economic growth. They transform houses, offices, factories, and even cities into autonomic, self-controlled systems acting often without human intervention and thus sparing people routine connected with information collecting and processing. The paper gives an overview of a novel Wi-Fi technology, currently under development, which aims to organ...

This paper describes an approach to collaboratively improving processes in smart factories. It is based on the idea of a meta-process for continuous improvement that involves all stakeholders. The participation of human workers is seen as vital and is fostered using a set of technologies including wiki-based social software and the S-BPM approach to process management. The paper shows how these...