Pathways to digitalisation of manufacturing
Pathways to digitalisation of manufacturing reflect how digitalisation and eventually the deployment of digital platforms can bring value within different kinds of manufacturing perspectives, such as factory automation, value networks or product-service development. The pathways enhance the awareness among different stakeholders about the actual and future use of digital technologies in manufacturing and facilitate the migration from legacy situations towards innovative approaches.
Currently three pathways with a particular scope are being developed:
- Hyperconnected Factories
- Autonomous Smart Factories
- Collaborative Product-Service Factories
Presentations of these pathways from a ConnectedFactories workshop held on 26 September 2018 can be found here. It is likely that more pathways focussing on particular application objectives or contexts will be developed in the future.
Across these pathways, it is important to look at the SME perspective or the perspective of companies where digitalisation is still in the very early stages. This perspective is referred to as the ‘Small-Scale Digitised Factories’ perspective or ‘persona’.
Watch: Introduction to Pathways
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Deliverable 4.4 reflects a snapshot at the end of December 2018 of the progress and outlook of the development of the pathways. It is available for download here.
The pathways are also progressively introduced on the EFFRA Innovation Portal (see also the screenshot below):
Projects, solutions and demonstrators are characterised and positioned on the pathways, please see here for more information.