What is a smart factory?
Smart factories have the following six distinctive characteristics: 1. Device interconnection. It can realize equipment-to-equipment interconnection (M2M). Through integration with the equipment control system and external sensors, SCADA (data collection and monitoring system) can collect the status of the equipment, production completion information, and quality information in real time, and through the application of RFID (radio frequency technology), barcode (one-dimensional and two-dimensional) and other technologies to achieve traceability of the production process. 2. Extensive application of industrial software. MES (manufacturing execution system), APS (advanced production scheduling), energy management, quality management and other industrial software are widely used to achieve visualization and transparency of the production site. When building a new factory, digital factory simulation software can be used to simulate equipment and production line layout, factory logis...