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The Smart Factory @ Dusseldorf is not just a lab. A smart factory is a factory that’s incredibly smart. It sounds almost like something from a myth. But it is not an illusion. Read on to learn more about the Smart Factory @ Dusseldorf by Deloitte.
As a living, breathing experience centre, the Smart Factory by Deloitte @ Düsseldorf illustrates end-to-end digital transformations. Our immersive learning environment connects the digital, physical, and experimental realms, offering a 360° view of the entire product life cycle. We demonstrate how traditional value chains can evolve from linear to interconnected and circular. In addition, we operate a live production line that delivers tangible benefits that you can observe first-hand.
We bring together a world-renowned team of solution providers, technology innovators, academic researchers, and futurists to show how a smart factory can transform your entire enterprise. This experiential space is both a fully operational manufacturing facility and a personal innovation playground, where visitors are immersed in custom simulations designed to solve real business problems. Working with our clients, we solve business problems and demonstrate that anything is possible.
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Making manufacturers the world's smartest organizations
Smart organizations are fueled by data, and by combining data with technology and human experience, Deloitte helps organizations to work smarter. We collaborate with a wide range of technology partners to develop innovative solutions that align digital technologies with strategic priorities. In the face of today’s challenges—from supply chain disruptions and escalating costs to geopolitical uncertainty—we help manufacturers to focus on operational enhancements that can improve efficiency, lower costs, reduce waste, and increase productivity.
Factories need to evolve from linear value chains into circular and interconnected ecosystems
Our Experience: Demos and solutions
All of our use cases are presented as physical experiences. One such experience is a lab-sized manufacturing line for discrete assembly, which showcases how technologies can help manufacturers to overcome current challenges and to build a software-defined factory for the future. Below are a few of the demonstrations we feature at the Smart Factory @ Dusseldorf:
At the Smart Factory we feature a lab size manufacturing line for discrete assembly, showcasing how these technologies can help manufacturers overcome current challenges and build a software-defined factory of the future. Below are a few of the demos we show at our facility:
Software-defined automation
Concept: Software-defined automation involves building a holistic solution stack for the scope of a Smart Factory; from virtualized PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) to AI on the edge to cloud-based insights platforms.
Benefits: This approach helps bring the industrial automation stack to the current age and can allow for easier adoption of state-of-the-art software delivery patterns, such as CI/CD and automated testing, helping to make the factory more adaptable and responsive to changes.
Use case: The use case will show how these software delivery patterns are put into action, deploying updates to virtualized PLCs remotely through an industrial edge management system.
OT Security-vulnerability management
Concept: As factories become more connected and software-defined, they may be increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats.
Benefits: It is important to build security into the factory shopfloor from the beginning. This includes conducting automatic scans to identify devices on the shop floor, understanding their communication with third parties, and assessing potential vulnerabilities.
Use case: The OT security vulnerability management framework helps identify the status of devices and potential threats, helping to ensure a secure operational environment.
Connected shop floor services
Concept: The convergence of IT and OT is important for automating workflows on the shop floor. Standardizing services such as onboarding machines to analytics and AI solutions and developing automations around these services, can help support achieving a higher adoption rate of these solutions.
Benefits: Well-scoped and automated processes can significantly improve usage of digital manufacturing services; typically leading to a positive feedback loop of solution usage and quality.
Use Case: This use case will show how a machine can be automatically onboarded from an Excel file through Generative AI.
GenAI for engineering feedback
Concept: Modern and agile product development may require continuous iteration based on real performance data in production and operation. Processing that data, finding concerns and formulating insights can be a complex and time-consuming process that can be significantly improved through GenAI agents.
Benefits: Faster iteration cycles and more data-driven decision-making can lead to better products and reduced cost of maintenance/operation on the client.
Use Case: Service cases created by field technicians are analyzed and clustered by a GenAI agent. When systematic concerns are identified, the agent automatically creates a problem report in the system.
Anomaly detection and predictive maintenance
Concept: This approach involves continuous monitoring of machine condition data (like temperature, vibration, and pressure) and maintenance history, using algorithms to detect deviations from normal operating patterns. When anomalies are detected, the system can forecast the likelihood of future failures, helping to enable proactive maintenance planning through both actionable insights and action recommendations.
Benefits: By predicting equipment failures before they occur, companies can schedule maintenance during off-peak hours, thereby minimizing operational disruptions. This can extend the lifespan of the equipment and optimize the use of maintenance resources to help improve overall operational efficiency.
Use Case: The combined data from existing and retrofitted sensors on our manufacturing line serves and a well-maintained catalog of asset documentation serves as the foundation for GenAI-based operator guidance systems for maintenance planning and optimization.
Software-defined vehicles
Concept: Vehicles are increasingly becoming software-defined, with many functionalities controlled by software rather than mechanical components.
Benefit: Managing software updates and versions is important for vehicle safety and performance. This includes over-the-air updates and monitoring the software status of each vehicle.
Use case: This use case demonstrates how to manage the software landscape for vehicles, helping to ensure proper integration, versioning, and security.
Our Alliance and ecosystem partners
Together with our Alliance and ecosystem partners, we inspire and activate our clients to start their own digital transformation with the practical use of the latest technologies.
Podcast
In this Smart Factory podcast, our German team discusses a wide variety of digitization topics with experts from both national and international backgrounds. You will learn about the new opportunities that digital transformation offers for production and the supply chain. Please note that this podcast is in the German.
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