What is the digital effect or what is a digital factory?

1. No Paper
   At the base level, the digital factory is no more paper-no paper at all. This concept of the fourth industrial revolution is essentially the digital, the digitization of manufacturing. When the Germans wrote the Industry 4.0 specification, the standard, their idea was, let’s get rid of paper. That’s the fourth industrial revolution.
2. Equipment Talk
   
   The value of the digital factory is that we decrease the number of errors because we’re taking the data from the source of truth. We’ve already established this in the stack talks to our equipment. Our equipment has all the information we want. What are we running? When did we run? How are we running? What did we produce? That’s all we really care about.
3. ERP -Enterprise Resource Planning
   An ERP system handles all of our planning and scheduling. What should I be running right now? Taking the schedule and getting it down to the plant floor is almost always through paper and people, and we have established that people make mistakes. Here’s the other thing. When our schedule in the ERP system is not connected to our operations on the shop floor, then the accuracy of the schedule is wholly based on the person who knows the most about what’s going on the floor. When you use an IoT protocol and build a digital factory, the schedule relies on data coming directly from the equipment and you can update the schedule.
4. Algorithms
   We can write algorithms that update the schedule in real-time without a person having to make executing decisions.
5. Real-Time decision making
   
   The digital factory has real-time metrics, not supervisors making decisions based on data from the past. It means making decisions based on real-time metrics, not just real time scale metrics, but metrics related to our schedule, new sales that just came in hot lots that have to run in real-time.
6. Data Science and big data
   In a digital factory the data is not just from the source that we have control on, but all source that affects our business like currency exchange rates. or current weather shipping. Here is the big data analytics
7. Machine Learning
   A digital factory has real-time analytics. That’s not just using the data from the floor, but it’s using data from the past. we’ve collected and stored it in a data lake. and if there’s no big data machine, there’s no big data algorithm that analyzes all that yet. What we want to do is have programs running in the cloud to look at our historical data, look at the information that our operators gave us, and predict that we are driving right into something we’ve already learned could happen.
8. NOT relevant to Human Operators
   People freak out when they hear digital factories because they think it’s no people. which is not correct. Of course in a digital factory, we need specialists to analyze the data and making the operation run more efficiently. but looking at Digital Factory from the completely is a wrong perspective.