Cyber-Physical Electronics Production

Abstract

Cyber-physical manufacturing networks bear the chance to change the face of tomorrow’s electronic and mechatronic products as well as their production systems. The ability to integrate miniaturized sensors and printed communication technologies into materials, machines, and products leads to autonomous cyber-physical systems with an image in the virtual world and a real-world counterpart down on the shop floor. An efficient sensor data consolidation is in the position to establish self-learning control loops across global production networks in order to increase process robustness as well as process flexibility and thus allowing for instant product changes with an ideal lot size of one. Low-cost solutions for smart autonomous vehicles enable the breakup of classical production lines. One of the major challenges of these disruptive changes is securing the manageability of the possible data and information overflow. Novel socio-cyber-physical assistance systems will ensure the operation of these smart factories.