Author

Yoshimi ITO

Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology

Abstract

The “ Concept of Smart Factory “ proposed within the “ Industrie 4.0 “, one of the Flagship Projects, is very attractive; however, we can obtain only some key terms representing the smart factory at present. In discussion of the factory system, in general, we needs to envision the system configuration or system layout design, and in fact these key terms cannot facilitate to response such a requirement. This paper tries to detail each key term together with unveiling further issues on the basis of the forerunning achievement, which seems to be for the smart factory in general concern. In due course, we may expect to draw much more details of the smart factory, and also to suggest the research and engineering development subjects, which are necessary and inevitable to the smart factory in fruition to some extent.

Date of issue

2017/08/31