Use of laboratory scenarios as a strategy to develop smart factories for Industry 4.0
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Use of laboratory scenarios as a strategy to develop smart factories for Industry 4.0 Mauricio Hincapié1 · Alberto Valdez2 · David Güemes-Castorena3
· Miguel Ramírez1
Received: 5 June 2020 / Accepted: 28 August 2020 © Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The intense pressures in the industrial environment and the academic field to adopt technological tools and concepts like product lifecycle management, digital factories, automation, the internet of things, process innovation, and bridges between real and virtual worlds have resulted in necessary new process innovations. All these are encompassed in the term “Industry 4.0.” The evolution of teaching methods toward flipped classrooms, software advancements to support engineering topics, online studies, new skill requirements in Industry, and easy, affordable access to education have pushed universities to find novel ways to meet current conditions and prepare for future challenges. The need to link academic knowledge with Industry led us in our research project to create a methodology for the development and implementation of virtual and hybrid scenarios by using highly integrated, digital manufacturing tools as a teaching platform to explain topics like the automation of programmable logic controllers, robotics, manufacturing, and 3D virtual commissioning. The methodology was implemented successfully in a manufacturing system integration laboratory at Tecnologico de Monterrey by using virtual and hybrid commissioning scenarios as a strategy to develop smart factories. Keywords Industry 4.0 · Virtual commissioning · Teaching platform · Digital factory · Educational innovation · Higher education
1 Introduction It is a fact that Industry is being transformed by the accelerating evolution to “Industry 4.0,” pushing universities in the same direction with technological tools that provide students the skills and knowledge necessary to satisfy modern
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Mauricio Hincapié [email protected] David Güemes-Castorena [email protected] Alberto Valdez [email protected] Miguel Ramírez [email protected]
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Corporación Universitaria Americana, Cra. 42 No. 52-06 (Av. La Playa), Medellín, Colombia
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Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Calle del Puente #222, Col. Ejido de Huipulco, Tlalpan, C.P. 14380 Mexico City, Mexico
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Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, 64849 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
industry requirements. Industry 4.0 has nine technical pillars. This research work explores and implements three of them, namely, (i) advanced simulation, (ii) robotics, and (iii) system integration, which are highlighted in Fig. 1. These pillars are supported by concepts such as smart factories, virtual commissioning, simulation, digital twins, and others shown at the bottom of Fig. 1, which are discussed later in this paper. Smart factory products, resources, and processes can be characterized by cyber-physical systems (CPS) [1]. An essential k
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