Realization of Digital Production by an engineering applications-based approach

To cope with the increasing volatility of the markets, companies have to become more flexible and reactive. An approach to enhance the flexibility of industrial companies from the side of technical business processes is Digital Production. The realization of a Digital Production can be done by means of a factory application-based approach to align and optimize the lifecycles of products and factories. The approach envisions that all stakeholders in activities like product design, process development, factory planning as well as production planning and factory operation will be supported by service-based software components, systems or digital tools without creating a single overloaded, hardly manageable system. In this way, the robustness and accuracy of processes will be enhanced and consequently a higher and more stable product and service quality will be achieved and the overall system for product creation will become more flexible and reactive. To bring Digital Production and its application-based realization to live, an innovation cluster was implemented.