Persistence Market Research Released New Market Report on “Smart Factory
Market - PMR Market Insight Report 2015 to 2021”.
Smart factories are affordable and offer fully integrated automation solutions for
manufacturing facilities to streamline the flow of materials during the
manufacturing process. Smart factories are characterized by increasing the use of
technology and field devices to offer complete automation in manufacturing
process. By incorporating cyber physical system into the forefront of manufacturing
flow, smart factories are able to connect every process and component across the
value chain. This interconnection of information and production has revolutionized
the automation industry and thereby, facilitated manufacturing units to perform at
an optimum level. Moreover, manufacturing companies are able to achieve shortest
time to market and zero waste production through smart factories. Automation in
smart factories makes the use of various control devices such as sensors, motors,
drives, switches and relays and networks technologies such as wired, wireless and
radio frequency identification (RFID). Integrated systems such as Manufacturing
Execution System (MES), Information Technology (IT) system, Programmable Logic
Control (PLC), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) are designed to meet the specific requirements of a
manufacturing unit. These industrial control systems manage the process and
streamline the flow of materials across the manufacturing line. Smart factories also
make use of industrial robots such as articulated robots, SCARA (Selective
Compliance Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm)
robots, Cartesian robots,...