Smart Factory: Lean Meets Industry 4.0
Rising labor costs, volatile markets, high quality requirements, and increasing diversity of customer needs require ever-shorter lead times and a new level of production flexibility. These challenges are ever harder to tackle with traditional production methods. The solution is the Smart Factory, which combines lean production principles, modularized products and Industry 4.0 elements. It is time to know more about new manufacturing technologies!
Learning Objective:
During this one-day training, you will have a clear understanding of the building blocks of a Smart Factory and how they lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. You will also have clear ideas about how to transform your own production and build a Smart Factory with a high level of connectivity, collaboration, real-time information flow, as well as other new manufacturing technologies.
Practical examples will be used to keep the participants engaged and help them learn effectively.
Course Content:
· Changes need to be made in factory, product, and in relations to your suppliers and customers to achieve the goal of an Smart Factory
· Necessary elements and sustainable competitive advantage of a Smart Factory
· KPIs used to measure how smart your factory is
· Role of Industry 4.0 in the context of Smart Factory
· Different aspects of Smart Factory, application of Industry 4.0, and new manufacturing technologies
Agenda: 9:00 -- 17:00
- What is Industry 4.0?
- The role of Lean Production and Leadership in a Smart Factory?
- Work streams which are necessary to build a Smart Factory?
- Characteristics of Smart Factory and how they can be measured with KPIs
- New Manufacturing technologies and the role of automation and assistance systems
- What the Smart Factory means for your company and your business model
Target Group: CEOs, COOs, CIOs, General Managers, Plant Managers, Production Managers.