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SMART FACTORY

Smart Factory – innovative industrialization

Whether it's demographic change, a shortage of skilled workers or the digital transformation - you are facing numerous challenges with your production today. There are also other drivers such as de-globalization, increasing cost pressure and sustainability requirements. The solution? A cost-effective smart factory that can meet the requirements of Industry 5.0 in every respect - if you have the right partner at your side.

At EDAG, we combine our decades of product know-how and our cross-industry production expertise with the digital world for your smart factory. The Industrial Metaverse is the home of all digital twins - the Smart Product and the Smart Factory. We support you with state-of-the-art simulations and solutions on the way to efficient production processes along the entire value chain. Together, we develop a solution that allows you to realize positive cost effects in production.

  • Sustainable business models: We focus on your corporate strategy and your operations model. Together, we develop customized solutions for your quality products.
  • Scaling: With our solutions, we support you in efficiently industrializing products from the laboratory to series production and ensuring optimal value streams.  
  • Responsibility up to SOP: Your success is our goal. We support you from your business case, through employee empowerment and production engineering, to the successful start of production, as well as with the operation and maintenance of systems.
  • Secure investments: The safety and cost efficiency of all processes are our main concern. Consistent target costing throughout the entire development phase safeguards your investments and guarantees future-proof solutions.
  • Manufacturing excellence: We guarantee manufacturing excellence in the production of your smart factory by optimizing key performance indicators. The consistent implementation of the production layout, technologies, work organization and logistics is based on our tried-and-tested processes and methods.
     

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Your smart factory white paper

Find out how digitalization and connected manufacturing are opening up completely new possibilities for production, work organization and operational excellence in our white paper “The Smart Factory – the Connected Factory of Tomorrow”. Let our examples, such as the application of a digital twin, VR applications and smart processes, inspire you to make your manufacturing more efficient, flexible and cost-effective. Get a clear answer to the question: “How much digitalization does my company really need?”

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Optimal process reliability

How can process reliability be achieved in production? As a long-standing expert in the fields of process optimization and DFM (Design for Manufacturing), we ensure efficient product enablement and determine the manufacturability and production costs of your products at an early stage.

  • Our focus areas
      • Optimization of products and processes in all development phases
      • Ensuring manufacturability through digital product validation
      • Evaluation of the maturity level of technologies and components
      • Analysis of the ergonomics of manual production processes
      • Ensuring stable and efficient production processes
      • Review of investments and component costs to ensure the profitability of your smart factory
  • Your benefits
      • Accelerated decision-making through structured approach
      • Economic added value for the overall project
      • Optimized operating costs (OpEx)
      • Assured product and production quality
      • Goals and results of product influence, documented and guaranteed by key figures

Sustainable factory infrastructure

In a lean smart factory, sustainable building planning plays a crucial role. We are able to combine sustainable building technology in production with sound technical building equipment planning and support you throughout all work phases of the HOAI fee structure for architects and engineers. In doing so, we pay close attention to your requirements for the building and the spatial and energy-related conditions.

  • Our focus areas
      • Coordination of requirements between production and infrastructure
      • Basic evaluation and general planning with the involvement of specialist planners
      • Taking over project management
      • Digital safeguarding of factory processes and BIM
      • Observing the TCO
      • Implementation of cost reduction, efficiency improvement and optimization projects
      • Location analysis, selection and planning
  • Your benefits
      • Fewer interfaces thanks to result-oriented general planning from a single source
      • Cost reduction and efficiency increase
      • Project security guaranteed by digital protection from the inside out
      • Tested and verified supply media (media supply)
      • Customized assumption of responsibility for implementation by EDAG

Maximum productivity

Cost pressure is increasing, and the demands for efficient production are constantly growing. To remain competitive, you need to continuously scrutinize your smart factory processes and set new standards. As experienced experts, we support you in increasing your productivity in a targeted manner.

  • Our focus areas
      • Gathering of the relevant parameters through system analysis
      • Transparent presentation of costs and benefits through concept development
      • Function-oriented, mechatronic development
      • Quality planning
      • Virtual safeguarding
      • Safety-related validation
      • Commissioning of smart factories after comprehensive validation of all processes
      • Delivery of a turnkey production solution
  • Your benefits
      • Cash-flow-optimized investment plan
      • Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
      • Supplier-independent system component selection, tailored to your requirements
      • IT/OT architectures for future-proof networking of all areas Smart factory areas
      • Production solution including CE conformity

Supply Chain Excellence

Use supply chain excellence to ensure a resilient supply chain and optimize your logistics, supplier and distribution network with the help of our specialists. By seamlessly integrating material and information flows, you can take your value chain to a new level.

  • Our focus areas
      • Holistic analysis, planning and implementation of projects, from tendering to realization
      • Optimization and digitization of your supply chain (intralogistics and supply processes)
      • Robust networks for security of supply
      • Increased efficiency through process optimization
      • Automation in transport logistics
      • Process assurance through material flow simulation
      • Optimization of transport planning as well as supplier and container management
  • Your benefits
      • Boosting the efficiency of your supply chain
      • Improved security of supply
      • Reduced process costs and shorter response times
      • Adaptability of your smart factory to future challenges
      • Securing supplier quality
      • Promoting sustainability

Mastering complexity

We are the digitization experts in process and production development. Combining this domain knowledge with our IT expertise enables future-proof architectures, secure development and production, as well as process-reliable operation for complete complexity management in every modern smart factory.

  • Our focus areas
      • Automated, integrated engineering process with material flow simulation, digital twin and virtual commissioning
      • Intelligent automation and flexible robotics for process-optimized production plants
      • Cyber-physical systems as well as MOM (MES), SCADA and energy monitoring solutions
      • Big data solutions for production optimization, quality management, predictive maintenance and real-time information management
  • Your benefits
      • Reliable start of production with high productivity
      • Improved flexibility and efficiency
      • Transparent processes and rapid response times
      • Enhanced monitoring and control of processes
      • Optimized planning and use of resources

The effective human in production

With effective solutions for digital collaboration, we create networked employees and empower teams that work with and interact with intelligent systems within production.

  • Our focus areas
      • Collaboration solutions for projects between clients, employees, service providers and partners
      • Digital platforms for networked factories
      • Guided workflows and process documentation for operations and quality management
      • Training software for smart factories
      • Processes for optimization and secure decision-making at the management level
  • Your benefits
      • Increased efficiency of qualification measures in terms of time, costs and quality
      • Reduction of the ecological footprint
      • Independent, proactive knowledge acquisition without trainer dependency
      • Training can be carried out independently of time and place
      • Improved learning success and shorter qualification times as well as faster “time to market”
      • Process reliability and efficiency through central documentation of product audit results
      • Use of data for analyses and follow-up processes such as predictive maintenance
      • Reduction of non-value-adding activities through digitization

Holistic decision support

Digital twins are used both in production and in the design of production development. Their optimal use, combined with a consistent IT infrastructure within the smart factory, enables significant time savings by parallelizing development processes.

  • Our focus areas
      • Consultancy, concept development and validation of systems for digital twins
      • Inspection of the interfaces between the product and production and the building planning, and ensuring their data consistency
      • Virtual commissioning of smart factory plants and production systems
      • Digital factory visualization from the early phase
      • Development of an integrated and central data platform
      • Profitability analyses with cost evaluation for investments and components
  • Your benefits
      • Innovative business models and greater efficiency – business potential and optimized processes through digital twins
      • Better decisions – visual representations facilitate understanding and the solution of complex challenges in the field of smart factories
Rainer WittichChairman of the Board EDAG Production Solutions
Dirk KellerSenior Vice President Industry Solutions