The European 4.0 Transformation Center (E4TC) is a unique platform combining hands-on digitalization experience and the E4TC living demonstrator projects at the RWTH Aachen Campus. This has resulted in the
With these, we offer manufacturing companies a direct perspective and an efficient way to realizing their own agile digital transformation. According to the acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index , latencies for gathering insights, root cause analysis, decision making and action implementation can be reduced significantly.
The Internet of Production approach ensures that data and use cases are available across departments, and can close loops traveling upstream with traceability, complementing traditionally sequential process and IT architectures.
Established manufacturers are successful based on their own process and IT landscapes that have grown organically, or with company acquisitions, over time. Often, this creates challenges of heterogeneity in systems landscapes, departmental data formats and data models, hard to achieve openness and connectivity, and associated costly efforts to provide for data-driven use cases within a given IT architecture. File-supported processes without solid grounding in system applications are a frequent consequence, i.e., the number of data creating or reporting spread sheets being indicators of lack of digitalization, reduced productivity, and management loops slow to close.
In order to chart a course for 4.0 Transformation that tackles these challenges and opens up to the available opportunities, we suggest to define a company-specific variation of the Realize Digital Transformation Roadmap.[/vc_column_text]
