Smart Factory - Thought Leadership

Implementing smart manufacturing for a smart factory

November 19, 2019

In manufacturing, a smart factory provides everything within an arm’s each for improved layout and process simulation to achieve greater quality.

By Blake Snodgrass

7 MIN READ

Implementing smart manufacturing – leveraging the digital twin

October 29, 2019

Implementing the digital twin in smart manufacturing integrates multi-disciplines in managing simulation to solve many issues.

By Blake Snodgrass

6 MIN READ

Podcast series: Smart manufacturing (Part 4) – creating a smart factory

October 8, 2019

Innovative manufacturing techniques for smart factory operations.

By Blake Snodgrass

2 MIN READ

Podcast series: Smart manufacturing (Part 1) – industrial-machinery

August 13, 2019

(Listen to the podcast, above.) The landscape of industrial machinery in manufacturing is seeing an innovative surge of technological advancements based on smart manufacturing. This is in response…

By Blake Snodgrass

3 MIN READ

Hype and reality of additive manufacturing applications

May 21, 2019

Is your company ready for industrial-scale additive manufacturing? As a member of the Siemens PLM Thought Leadership team, we are joined by Robert Meshel, Siemens Director of the Additive Manufacturi…

By Blake Snodgrass

7 MIN READ

How to forge a path to industrial digitalization

December 26, 2018

In the previous blog, How the digital factory made an eyewear company more competitive, I discussed the adoption of digital manufacturing and digital twin within a small company producing lenses for …

By Zvi Feuer

6 MIN READ

How the digital factory made an eyewear company competitive

December 6, 2018

In 2015, the World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative. This initiative assessed digitalization’s impact on 13 industries, including automotive, consumer and logistics, and …

By Zvi Feuer

5 MIN READ

Manufacturers: get ready for the algorithms

November 6, 2017

The latest biological research suggests that all animal life on Earth is best described as meat-based algorithms. From the fruit fly to the killer whale, animal behavior is the result of survival log…

By alastairorchard

7 MIN READ

Production systems engineering in future digital factories

August 7, 2017

By: Wolfgang Schloegl and Christian Heck
We’re now at a similar turning point like we were in 2000 when the first digital factory projects began. Now, the full potential of digitalization is withi…

By WolfgangS

4 MIN READ