Factory subclasses relevant to Industry 4.0 challenges

Abstract

The practical probation results of the different future factories options innovative business strategies created today sufficient conditions to form the industrial companies second echelon (subclasses). Some future factories subclasses families are proposed and based on the business company models differentiation. There are varieties of services, sharing, system and study factories as the smart factory subclasses. There are varieties of open, pilot, creative and framework factories as the digital factory subclasses. There are varieties of cluster, client, route and recycling factories as the virtual factory subclasses. There is a similar scheme for all subclasses types of families. All factories subclasses are additionally grouped in the speciality of their business strategies. In essence, the satisfaction of customized consumer requirements or manufacturer market trading offers provision, which is equally actual for Industry 4.0.