Title :
Digital factory - planning and running enterprises of the future
Author :
Worn, Heinz ; Frey, Daniel ; Keitel, Jochen
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Process Control & Robotics, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
Abstract :
This paper describes an innovative approach to factory automation - the digital factory. The first part gives a short overview of current CIM (computer integrated manufacturing) and CAPE (computer-aided production engineering) tools. The second part specifies the concepts "virtual engineering", "digital mock-up" and "digital factory" and introduces a method which links several CIM/CAPE tools together using a shared product/process data management system. Finally, we present a new distributed, scalable, Internet-based tele-diagnosis and monitoring system for robots and robot cells
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided production planning; computerised monitoring; factory automation; industrial robots; technological forecasting; CAPE; CIM; computer integrated manufacturing; computer-aided production engineering; digital factory; digital mock-up; distributed scalable Internet-based system; enterprise planning; factory automation; monitoring system; robot cells; shared product/process data management system; tele-diagnosis system; virtual engineering; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer integrated manufacturing; Computerized monitoring; Data engineering; Engineering management; Internet; Manufacturing automation; Production engineering; Robots; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2000. IECON 2000. 26th Annual Confjerence of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Nagoya
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6456-2
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2000.972307
