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Babu Unnikrishnan
Chief Technology Officer, Manufacturing and Utilities, TCS
Sachin Bhavsar
Lead, Smart Factory Practice, Manufacturing, Europe, TCS
Prasad Medepalli
Lead, Research and Innovation, Manufacturing, TCS
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Understanding the building blocks of a smart factory
To improve operations and strengthen their bottom line, manufacturing firms are adopting digital technologies to make their shop floors smarter. COVID-19 has only accelerated this transformation. Building a smart factory requires firms to consider their operating model, current maturity state and business process architecture. Below are the different operational characteristics required for a smart factory:
These characteristics require flexible integration architecture built on an industrial internet of things platform, supported by a polyglot data fabric construct, an active intelligent services capability with self-service, model management and security features.
A think big-start small-scale rapidly approach can help firms implement a smart factory.
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