Integrated Model of Production and Engineering Chains in Smart Manufacturing Technologies in Industry 4.0

Abstract

: This study synthesizes a model of the main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0. This study has three main stages: an overview of the main definitions of the concepts “engineering and production chain” and “model”, the generation of working definitions of these concepts for the purposes of this article, and synthesis of a model of the main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0. It was concluded in the course of the analysis that the defined six main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0 are part of its cyber–physical production system. The tools that support the Model of the main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0 are also synthesized in this article. The essential added value for science and production engineering of the Model in the main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0 are defined for the first time in the literature as an option to deepen the processes of re-structuring the real traditional physical production into a cyber–physical production process by integrating specialized software products in the operation of each of the defined chains and the entire cyber–physical production system.