Today, the ideal factory can achieve levels of self-controlling (and perhaps self-learning) production processes, in which production reacts autonomously to changes or faults and takes appropriate measures. This brings systems engineering, production IT, and business systems to a new level.
Structured well, it is completely realistic to break the silos between engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing, service and support. Industry 3.x (and eventually Industry 4.0) will enable integration and complexity management, creating an underlying framework for modern manufacturing such as new collaboration networks that are more intuitive and flexible, including enabling tools and technologies as an open innovation platform.
The expectation is that “Industry 3.x” will lead to new business models and value propositions enabling the circular economy, with less waste and energy use, increased efficiency, fast turnaround, better quality, less rework, faster time-to-market, high-value products, new kind of jobs, supplier chain transparency, and improved IP security. To that end, it is important to understand the digital roadmap that will lead to creating the “factory of the future.” Over two decades, Tata Technologies has developed tools and techniques for assessing digital maturity in a holistic manner—from product development to manufacturing across five strategic axes:
It is important to understand the business maturity, vision and roadmap, in terms of how it needs and wants to move toward the next “Industry 3.x” iteration. The digital maturity model leverages multiple parameters across the people, process and technology dimensions that underpin manufacturing (a.k.a. the ‘golden triangle’ of change):
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