Staying competitive is difficult with shorter product lifetimes, ever changing product mixes and unexpected market and customer demands. What if you could however create an end-to-end, fully integrated, manufacturing process on a factory level and scale it up to get closer to your suppliers and customers?
You can. Welcome to the fully integrated Smart Factory!
Fastened, controlled, connected, integrated and smart
It is challenging to navigate in this difficult and complex world, flexibility is key to maintaining a competitive edge, let alone to stay profitable. But with multiple software and IT platforms dispersed across multiple locations, management of these systems does not really do much to help stay agile and competitive. The key to achieving this is integration. A fully integrated technology ecosystem based on industry standards protocols and data that that makes it easier to adjust to customer and market demands.
An integrated ecosystem
The journey is complete, the final step on the journey to the Smart Factory is here. A factory that is truly fully integrated across all systems, platforms and resources. Making the best use of resources and capabilities to support rebalancing of the production line in real-time, improve uptime and quality and make workflows and processes more productive and efficient.
Now that your entire factory acts as one entity, why not drive the integration of your manufacturing processes to also include your suppliers and customers?
Flexibility
Integration takes the level of operational flexibility to new levels. This “hyper-flexibility” is possible thanks to the full utilization of the integrated factory’s all resources. Expanding this to suppliers also offers an operational scalability with shared capacities. Managing production on a global integrated level opens all the options to optimize and re-balance production in a more flexible way, and in real-time.
Ecosystem
Creating an end-to-end, fully integrated and transparent, manufacturing and assembly line on a factory level scale. Processes are internally connected but also connected to supplier and customer processes enabling the sharing of information. A virtual and integrated manufacturing ecosystem with optimal possibilities to meet customer needs.
Cyber Security
Sharing large amounts of information in real-time both internally but also with suppliers and customers puts the organization at risk for security breaches and cyber-attacks. In a fully integrated factory production system cyber security is vital to securing an uninterrupted and reliable production.
The Atlas Copco roadmap to smarter manufacturing
Smart Integrated Assembly is our concept for industrial manufacturers looking to transform and implement Smart Factories. It encompasses our ecosystem of tools, hardware, software and services solutions providing unrivalled competitive value in each step of the customers’ product manufacturing cycles. The result is more efficient, flexible, adaptable, and safe manufacturing processes that support reduced downtime, better use of materials and energy and a substantial waste reduction.
To sum it all up
“Factory Integrated” is the fifth and the final step in the Smart Integrated Assembly concept which starts with “Joint Fastened”, Station Controlled”, “Station Automated” and “Line Connected”.
A comprehensive Industry 4.0 offering that starts with that very first fastened joint and ends with a fully integrated Smart Factory. Manufacturing processes reengineered by Atlas Copco. Getting it right from the start.