As an automation partner and system supplier, we also provide a broad basis of infrastructure systems and software solutions – all adapted to suit the specific processes and interfaces
Umsetzung der Sm@rtFactory
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In der Virtual Reality können alle Aspekte des Betriebs und der Prozesse in Echtzeit durchgeführt werden.
This includes digital services, including augmented reality, which open up new possibilities. In smart factory halls, tablets and smart glasses project assembly and maintenance information into the real visual field of staff as a 3D animation and make complex information simpler and easier to understand. The "see more, know more" concept provides support during initial training and reduces potential for error, particularly where a high level of variation is involved.
Numerous customer projects, not to mention our own plants, prove we do more than just talk about Industry 4.0 by bringing our vision to life. Innovative concepts for a range of different logistics, assembly and manufacturing tasks are tested and developed continuously at our sites according to the principles of value creation – and under real conditions.
We are keen to pass on the experience we have gained.
Besides product and system solutions, we offer advice on factory design and production automation. Seminars and training courses give participants the opportunity to find out more about our solutions and sample applications. They also offer tips and highlight the kinds of obstacles that crop up while designing a Lean Sm@rt Factory.
Success through teamwork
SEW experts join forces with customers to plan, configure and then implement fully integrated factories.
We use a multi-stage concept to do this.
- The first stage involves determining the basic data, identifying potential and devising a schematic concept, from which we then derive the vision.
- During the second stage, the findings are turned into a block layout and the material flow is planned. An initial rough simulation gives an idea of the processes in the factory.
This is then translated into detailed scale layouts and scenarios during the fine planning. Our technology and process experts plan and configure the system solution, using SEW tools to plan the pathways and radio messaging and to design the energy infrastructure to suit the processes.
Customers can take a virtual reality tour of the precisely planned simulation of the system and factory to give them an idea of the end result. We support our customers every step of the way with intensive project management, right through to the installation, startup and initial operation of the system.
Products and services for planning and implementing the networked, digital factory
Products and services
What we offer:
- Predefined system solutions e.g. for EMS, skillet, etc.
- Services: Consulting, planning, startup
Seminars
What we offer:
- One-day seminar on "Cyber-physical production systems? – New approaches to value stream design in the Sm@rt Factory"
- One-day seminar on "Sm@rt Factory vs. Dark Factory – Industry 4.0 meets Lean"
- One-day seminar on "Quick start Industry 4.0? – New approaches to workplace design in the Sm@rt Production Cell"
Your added value:
- Practical examples and hurdles in designing your own
- Lean Sm@rt Factory
- Plant tour and live analysis
- Presentation of best practices
- Sharing experience with other participants
Analysis and review
What we offer:
- Gathering actual relevant basic data (product and process structures, information and control system, customer-specific KPIs) relating to the system in conjunction with unit managers and users
- Identifying potential
Your added value:
- Shared understanding of actual situation and conditions
- Transparency and detailed understanding of production processes and management concepts in the area under consideration
- Necessary data is collated, combined and consolidated
- Potential and levers are identified and quantified
- The basis for launching a Sm@rt Factory is known, areas of activity are defined
Concept and vision
What we offer:
- Development of a schematic holistic concept for the factory of the future in design workshops without regard to restrictions
- Scaling the concept to a vision, taking into account assumptions and restrictions with regard to feasibility of fast implementation
Your added value:
- Development by an interdisciplinary team of a future-oriented vision of a highly efficient and highly flexible Sm@rt Factory, taking into account cooperation between humans and technology and interactive networking
- Ideas of solutions are based on a holistic system analysis
- More concrete redesign concepts are scaled to the agreed area and adapted for rapid implementation. Recommendations for action are defined for the subsequent project phases.
System planning
What we offer:
- Breakdown of the block layouts
- Material flow planning
- Technical evaluation/feasibility
- Rough simulation
- Detailed scale layouts and scenarios
- Technology specification
- System planning and configuration
- Detailed simulation (including in VR)
Order processing
What we offer:
- Project management/logistics
- System engineering
- System integration/software
- Production and assembly of
- simulation package for starting up customer IT interfaces
Your added value:
- Innovative technologies enhance customer benefits
- Emulation and virtual startup support the actual process and enable a reduced startup phase
- Proof of performance and checking of requirements
Installation and startup
What we offer:
- Simulations for virtual IBN and virtual preliminary approvals
- Installation support and startup
- Validations (installation, functional safety, radio messaging)
- Support for approval by certification bodies (German Technical Inspection Association (TÜV), employer's liability insurance association, …)
- Training various user groups
Your added value:
- Short IBN phases
- High standard of implementation
- Expert contacts, minimal interfaces
- Support for initial operation
Utilization and maintenance
What we offer:
- Solutions for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
Your added value:
- Ensuring/increasing the availability of components, machinery and systems
- Preventing malfunctions and unplanned outages / idling times thanks to early warnings of critical system states or abnormal operating behavior
- Improving the ability to plan maintenance and repairs
- Making maximum use of component and system lifecycles
