{"id":22835,"date":"2022-01-20T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/smart-factory-what-is-meant-by-a-smart-factory-today\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:34:35","slug":"smart-factory-what-is-meant-by-a-smart-factory-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regestaitalia.eu\/en\/smart-factory-what-is-meant-by-a-smart-factory-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart factory: what is meant by a smart factory today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The creation, or modernization, of a smart factory is one of the most important challenges for the manufacturing sector. Without exaggeration, we could call it  the challenge of the century<\/em> since the potential fallout is only comparable to that of the adoption of automation in the last century. The goal of a smart factory is to become a system  flexible<\/strong>, fully connected<\/strong> and able to provide, and rely on, a constant and reliable flow of data.<\/p>\n

Through connectivity and the use of real-time data, the smart factory is able to adapt to market demands<\/strong>, contingent conditions, optimize automatically and adopt self-learning processes to maintain performance and competitiveness.<\/p>\n

Smart Factory: the canonical definition<\/h2>\n

According to the Gartner’s definition of<\/a> the smart factory is a concept used to describe the application of modern technologies to create a hyper-flexible and self-adaptive manufacturing capability<\/em>. Speaking of Smart Factory,  a definition<\/a> has already appeared on our pages, in which we also placed special emphasis on the human factor<\/strong>: considering first automation and then the smart factory as competing concepts with the enhancement of personnel and technicians, in fact, is a rather common mistake. Instead, in this in-depth study, we are going to focus mainly on the technical aspects that constitute, at the level of principle, the requirements needed to start a process of implementation, or transformation, of the smart factory. <\/p>\n

The basic requirements of the smart factory<\/h2>\n<\/div>

Speaking of the Smart Factory, the meaning to be attached to the requirements is, of course, rather generic: implementation in the real world is complex and articulated but, as always, starting from the founding principles allows us to better grasp the overall vision and make strategic decisions. We could somewhat call them design principles, which must be followed both for the construction of new plants and factories and for the modernization of existing ones. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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