Smart manufacturing is an industrial process in which the most advanced technologies of the production process are integrated with new generation tools for the collection, processing and use of data: from Internet of Things to High Performance Computing.
Intelligent manufacturing marks a real paradigm shift in industry, allowing the achievement of high levels of efficiency and sustainability, but also making it necessary to redefine the entire production-management process and introducing a new competitive advantage: data management.
Data becomes the lifeblood of the entire production process and of the ability to innovate. In this context, intelligent manufacturing does not simply require investments in new capital goods, but rather a vision of development of ICT systems necessary, on the one hand, to maximize the efficiency of the production process thanks to data and, on the other, to seize all the business opportunities made possible by increasing levels of connection and integration.
In fact, ICT infrastructures of manufacturing companies will play an increasingly strategic role in enabling market success.
So how must the ICT architectural paradigms of enterprises evolve? What are the main challenges and how are market leaders addressing them? How can the evolution of ICT systems support a culture of innovation in companies? What are the future paradigms of digital integration at the supply chain level and how to enable them? How to integrate ICT choices within the development vision of companies?