What is a Smart Factory?

 

What is a Smart Factory? How to Install?

Our world is undergoing rapid transformations. The term smart factory came into our lives.3.0 Computers and Automation systems began to come to the fore in the rapidly developing world after the industrial revolution. In 3.0, Man-made Computers and Automation systems rose quite rapidly and played a major role in bringing today's technologies to this level. We are no longer surprised by automated robots that work unmanned. With 3.0, the development of computerized systems and the advancement of automation, robots that can report humanoids have now become today's normals.

What is a Smart Factory?

Smart Factories are systems that emerge with the technology and digitalization of traditional production systems. The systems that we are used to seeing in science fiction movies recently are now producing for us and reporting the production.

Computer aided design and engineering inventions,

Systems that facilitate factories and work areas, three-dimensional printing and designs, data analysis, reporting systems, inter-machine communication, cloud computing systems, internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and training. It is to provide ease of control for homes, workplaces and factories by producing systems that are similar to these and these.

Smart Factories should not be limited to 4 walls. The systems we refer to as smart factories are systems that can communicate between themselves and outside. Thus, maximum production and a near-perfect system can be maintained with minimum manpower requirement.

Stocks in Smart Factory Systems

In smart factory systems, reporting software and sensors placed in the system are used with apparatus to control the system. The products that will enter the stock system are first checked over the system during the packaging and palletizing processes and reported in detail. Thus, even before stockpiling, the system is controlled and stock is tracked. Products are included in the system with many conveyor types, especially the shuttle conveyor. The products that pass through the processes are stored for stocking. The products that will enter the storage are palletized or many types of storage are used. The quantities of the products in stock are input and all outputs are kept by reporting.

Production in Smart Factories

Although today's ordinary factories and Smart Factories seem to be the same under the phrase "Factory", in fact, it is definitely not like that. While production is the old way in today's ordinary factories, production in Smart Factories proceeds very differently. In the smart factory, first of all, if the system has produced the product to be produced before, the product hardness, weight, etc. automatically performs the measurements. In this way, the problems that may occur in the products or the errors that may occur can be easily prevented in advance with Smart Systems. During production, sensors etc. The number of products produced with these systems is determined whether they are faulty or not. Today, we see that product quality can be measured with smart systems. Thus, in the coming periods, we will be seeing more factories going to dehumanization in production than now.

The Future Position of Smart Factories

Today, technology is rising rapidly. On the one hand, we have industry 4.0, which we are not sure about, and on the other, we have industry 5.0, on which there is no shortage of discussions. It is certain that Smart Factories will be indispensable for the next century. Consumption and expenses of our societies are increasing day by day. As the demand rises, there will be new entrepreneurs, new factories and workplaces that are candidates to meet the demand. Every business will want to produce the highest quality product as soon as possible, and at this point, intelligent, planned, automation-based systems and software will be needed. At this point, Smart Factories will be very popular in the coming years.

It is not possible to say with certainty that smart factories can operate unmanned. Because only 94% of the trials made so far have been completely unmanned, systems that work through the internet, automation and software have been produced. In addition, it is easy to say Smart Factory, but the transition to Smart Factory environment is not as simple as it is said. Because after a point, the system always goes into wiring and fixation. However, the systems we call Smart should be devices that can freely communicate with each other wirelessly.

Key Features of Smart Factories

1) Interconnected manufacturing: Proactive work of production and supply processes in communication with each other.

2) Improvements: While increasing the production speed and quantity, it is aimed not to compromise on quality and to reduce quality and cost at the right rate.

3) Transparent Production: To design in such a way that users dominate production, supply and the whole process with realist works and real-time working methods.

4) Precaution: By monitoring the system in real-time, detecting malfunctions, troubles and problems that may occur in advance or by foreseeing it can provide recovery with less damage.

5) Serial Manufacturing: The system that is based on the fast, safe and high quality of the products produced.

Benefits of Smart Factories

1) Smart Factories: They work highly interconnected and informed. If the problem that will occur in any place will disrupt the routine work, this can easily be perceived and measures can be taken.

2) The devices of smart factories can directly report any automation and electrical failures that will occur directly according to the mechanical systems. Thus, the malfunction is detected before it turns into a mechanical problem and intervened on-site.

3) Smart Factory and personnel relations have evolved compared to the old systems. In the past, while people were giving commands to computers, now Intelligent systems are giving notifications to people and directing people. Thus, machines that indicated and explained their own problems, troubles and problems emerged.

What are the Reasons for Establishing Smart Factory Systems?

·         Due to the increase in the world population and many related reasons, inevitable advances were made in the industry. With industrialization, the rise of Capitalism and many related innovations began to emerge. A faster production process has always been entered.

·         The quality of the products and the consumer's desire to follow the products combined with an inevitable progress in the industry.

·         With the growth of business and workplace, the workload has increased continuously. Accordingly, employers began to seek solutions to reduce their workload and solution experts began to emerge.

·         After the establishment of Smart Factories, the costs created by workers and workers began to be reduced. Fewer workers meant less costs. Smart Factories may be costly at first, but an advanced worker can easily meet their costs and allows for quality production.

·         As consumption increases, production increases. As production increased, errors and deficiencies that could arise from errors, problems and quality were in question. Now, with the existence of smart factories, quality can predict errors and problems before they happen.

·         Foreseeable errors are resolved from the beginning and possible errors and costly accidents can be prevented in advance. The fact that the system can be controlled as desired with a few keys with Smart Factories has caused the spread of Smart Factory systems more easily and demanded more.