Further SEF test and development environment
The SEF Smart Electronic Factory association has been designing, testing and validating Industry 4.0 applications in the real electronics factory for several years. This factory environment makes it possible to develop solutions and standards for the digital transformation in factories.
The SEF Smart Electronic Factory association represents one of the leading drive and automation technology specialists for mechanical engineering in Lenze SE. Now the association can validate and realise several Proof of Concepts (PoCs) in parallel and make them accessible to medium-sized companies.
Analogous to the Smart Electronic Factory at Limtronik, another research and development platform was recently put into operation: at the Lenze SE factory in Aerzen.
Lenze SE is one of the leading drive and automation technology specialists for mechanical engineering. For several years now, the company has been focusing on using modern information and communication technologies to make the multi-variant production of goods more flexible, faster and more efficient, while at the same time reducing the complexity of handling.
The future commitment as a member of the SEF Smart Electronic Factory e.V. and as an operator of the factory environment required for this purpose promotes these activities.
Development environment for Industry 4.0 scenarios
In addition to its involvement in existing projects of the association - for example, in the automatic failure cause analysis of the tombstone effect - Lenze will in future enable further proof of concepts that address the central challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. One focus here is on solutions that enable customised production (batch size 1).
Among other things, PoCs for individual process management in a variant-rich production will be started, as well as another project that aims at the exemplary approach to harmonize legacy landscapes in companies with historically grown IT structures.
The fact that the two electronics service providers - Lenze and Limtronik - will be hosting the Smart Electronic Factory in future means that several projects can be implemented in parallel. Both manufacturers use individual machines in production, which are important for planned big data analytics projects, for example. In this way, PoCs that have already been implemented can be validated in the second lab and the development and research potential is duplicated.
