Industry 4.0 has taken manufacturing to the next level, handing processes over to technology, smart machines, and artificial intelligence (AI). These transformations often happen in isolation, creating siloed environments that miss the bigger purpose of digitalization. But when a company connects data among people, programs, and processes, the sum creates a digital factory.
A digital factory represents far more than the physical process of making things: It’s a concept in which the factory itself figures into the equation. The goal of a digital factory is to optimize manufacturing processes and the environment that houses them.
