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Welcome to Hanover home of the world's largest industrial fair with more than 6,500 manufacturing organizations
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from Fortune 500 giants to revolutionaries, start-ups, all descending to showcase their vision for the future of manufacturing and industry
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Launched in 1947 to boost the economic activity of post-war Germany
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Hannover Messe has positioned itself as the leading edge of the country's industrial output
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but organizers say this year represents a pivotal shift for innovation in manufacturing
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an initiative the German government has termed industry 4.0
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Well Hannover Messe is the worldwide most important show for industrial technology and energy technology
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and with the main theme being integrated industry that's why the show is enjoying such a height right now
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You've heard of the Internet of Things
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but industry 4.0 transitions these same ideas from the consumer market to large-scale production lines
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Of course you have your smart homes, you have your smart cars, and the next step is the smart factory
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then that's gonna be the future of production
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because products have to be produced more and more individual, more and more flexible
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and that is only possible if you have IT in your production processes
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A vision has given birth to the ultimate in smart manufacturing
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this is Smart Factory, a production line unveiled at the Messe
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to showcase what happens when every element of a production workflow moves online
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Smart Factory is the factory consisting of smart elements, smart objects
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that means that all the elements of the factory that means sensors, actors plus all of the parts itself also the people working there
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are connected to the Internet and are a part of such a network in the factory
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Led by the German government center for artificial intelligence
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Smart Factory is more than just a factory
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It's a united software platform
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that connects modules from huge manufacturing mainstays like Phoenix Contact and Siemens to independent start-ups
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individual modules that would typically not work together
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we have standards so you can put things together
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but you can also quickly rearrange all these things
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because you always have the same standard so just plug and play
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the system also allows production lines to be redeployed almost instantly by the manufacturer
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or customized by a customer when they place an order
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Everyone likes to have this individualized product and this means that
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we have more and more to change our production systems in a very very short time
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The Smart Factory's answer is this a tiny chip that travels with each individual product on the production line
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identifying what it is, who the customer is, and triggering customization throughout the process
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So how would something like this work?
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The customer can choose his very own what he wants
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which color he wants to have, which print he wants to have
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for example and then this will be produced in these modules here
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so what you see are the different production models and there are already the information of the customer is stored in this RFID chip
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so now the RFID chip is really controlling the flow of objects in this line for example
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each of these modules have been built by different companies
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they are equipped by different technologies so different controllers different sensors and actors of all these companies
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so here the customized information will be printed on this little cover here by this laser
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and finally we go to quality control will show up over here
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and the customer now can pick this up
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The technology also lowers environmental impact grouping similar orders together
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and powering off systems when they're not needed
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and while the demo creates something as simple as personalized business card holders
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the capabilities of the system run much deeper
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take for example the smartphones which we produce - they have a lifetime of a couple of months only
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and then we have to change something
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we can apply the same idea to car production and any other production as well
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But the rush to connect smarter factories is by no means a one-horse race
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in April the US government announced funding for Digital Manufacturing Commons
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a similar program led by a consortium US manufacturers
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and similar projects are emerging from the east
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I think everyone's under the pressure to move into this direction
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and therefore I think a lot of things will change in the future and they will be able to follow these standards
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but we have to be fast because other nations around the world are sometimes faster