Digital Transformation Process of a Mechanical Parts Production workshop to fulfil the Requirements of Industry 4.0

Abstract

In today's high manufacturers' competition, companies attempt to involve new advanced technologies to retain their market share. With smart technology, process and production methods are improved to suit the new manufacturers' needs. Now in the era of industry 4.0, the production techniques have to be developed to fulfil the customers' demands. Indeed, industry 4.0 promotes the development of traditional factories to digitalization and networking. The aim of this paper is to characterize and analyze the transformation 4.0 process adopted by a factory producing spherical bushels. This study is conducting by FlexSim software to establish a production simulation platform; which manages in real time the production and supply; through the Material Requirement Planning (MRP), the logistics warehouse and the Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS). Moreover, we optimized the statistical findings of simulation by load-capacity adjustment method. It allows increasing the occupancy rates of equipment. The results show the developed platform can significantly rise the production efficiency and practical for smart industry and can be extended for other cases. The developed simulation platform present a basis for a future digital twin of the company.