Article,
Industry 4.0: Building the Nuts and Bolts of Self-Organizing Factories
Siemens: Pictures of the Future, (2013)
Abstract
As information generated in the virtual world flows into real manufacturing processes, completely new production environments will emerge. In smart factories, communities of machines will organize themselves, supply chains will automatically coordinate with one another, and unfinished products will send the data needed for their processing to the machines that will turn them into merchandise. Siemens will play a key role in these developments.
