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Smart Factory Solutions - Global Strategic Business Report 2016-2022: Intelligent, Digitized & Automated Smart Factories to Transform the Manufacturing Industry - Research and Markets
[September 15, 2016]

Smart Factory Solutions - Global Strategic Business Report 2016-2022: Intelligent, Digitized & Automated Smart Factories to Transform the Manufacturing Industry - Research and Markets


DUBLIN, September 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Smart Factory Solutions - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering.

Annual estimates and forecasts are provided for the period 2015 through 2022. Market data and analytics are derived from primary and secondary research. This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Smart Factory Solutions in terms of spending on implementation in US$ Million. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America.

The Global market is further analyzed by the following Types:

  • Control Equipment & Software
  • Reporting & Analysis Software
  • Measurement Devices
  • Connectivity Solutions.

The report profiles 127 companies including many key and niche players such as

  • ABB Ltd. (Switzerland)
  • Accenture Plc (Ireland)
  • Altizon Systems Pvt. Ltd (India)
  • Atos SE (France)
  • ATS International B.V. (Netherlands)
  • Bosch Software Innovations GmbH (Germany)
  • CENIT AG (Germany)
  • Cisco Systems, Inc. (US)
  • Dassault Systèmes (France)
  • FANUC Corporation (Japan)
  • Fraunhofer IAO (Germany)
  • General Electric Company (US)
  • Honeywell International, Inc. (US)
  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd (China)
  • IBM Corporation (US)
  • Infosys Ltd. (India)
  • Intel Corporation (US)
  • Johnson Controls, Inc. (US)
  • KUKA Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
  • Mentor Graphics Corporation (US)
  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan)
  • Oracle Corporation (US)
  • PTC, Inc. (US)
  • Rockwell Automation, Inc. (US)
  • SAP SE (Germany)
  • Schneider Electric SE (France)
  • Siemens AG (Germany)
  • Wipro Limited (India)
  • WITTENSTEIN AG (Germany)

Key Topics Covered:

1. INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

  • Smart Factory Solutions: Enabling Digitization and Ubiquitous Connectivity in the Manufacturing Industry
  • Industry 4.0: Manufacturing Industry Set for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Intelligent, Digitized & Automated Smart Factories to Transform the Manufacturing Industry
  • Major Goals of Smart Manufacturing/Smart Factory Initiatives
  • Growing Prominence and Proliferation of Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies and Solutions: Foundation for Market Growth
  • Importance of Various Technology Enablers in Achieving Industry 4.0 Value Driver
  • Inherent Advantages of Smart Factory Solutions Drive Widespread Deployments
  • Improved Productivity & Growth
  • Enabling Virtual & Distributed Manufacturing
  • Streamlining Factory Automation
  • Reduction in Downtime & Maintenance Costs
  • Assisting Effective Management of Supply Chains
  • Developing Self-Organizing Factories
  • Market Fortunes Intrinsically Tied to the Manufacturing Industry
  • Industry 4.0: Preparing the Manufacturing Industry for the Next Phase of Globalization
  • Growing Patent Count: An Important Indicator of the Level of Innovation and Transformation in Industry 4.0
  • Global Market Outlook: Developed and Developing Countries to Embrace Industry 4.0 for Economic Prosperity
  • Geographic Regions Ranked by CAGR for 2015-2022: Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, USA, Japan and Canada (includes corresponding Graph/Chart)
  • Germany: Spearheading Industry 4.0' Adoption
  • Industry Sectors Warm Up to the Idea of Smart Factory
  • Positive Economic Outlook Benefit Market Prospects in the Near Term
  • Competitive Landscape
  • Digital Majors and Startups Tussle to Gain over Established Manufacturers
  • Siemens Dedicates Venture Capital Funding for Industry 4.0 Start-Ups

2. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS

  • Increasing Investments in Industrial IoT Technologies: A Strong Growth Driver for Smart Factory Solutions
  • Industrial IoT: The Most Critical Technology for Industry 4.0 Transformation
  • How Can IoT Meet the Needs of the Manufacturing Industry?
  • Discrete Manufacturers Experiment with IoT Implementations
  • IoT Set to Revolutionize the Supply Chain
  • Essential IoT-based Digital Initiatives for Successful Transition of Manufacturers to Industry 4.0
  • Digital Transformations to Drive Growth and Profit
  • Customer Focus to Drive Innovation
  • IoT Drives New Revenue Opportunities
  • Visibility at all Levels
  • Collaboration and Cautious Innovation
  • Protection of Physical and Intellectual Property
  • Growing Need to Achieve Competitive Edge Encourages Manufacturers to Embrace IIoT
  • Deploying Machine Monitoring Systems: The Most Common Way to Implement Industrial IoT in Machine Shops
  • Real-time Simulations: A Promising Technology Connecting Human, Machine, and Products in Smart Manufacturing
  • M2M Communication: Essential for Seamless Connectivity between Multiple IoT Devices
  • Aging Workforce & Shortage of Skilled Workforce Provides the Perfect Platform for Market Growth
  • Digital Talent: Need of the Hour for Digital Transition of Industrial Processes
  • Steady Adoption of Smart Factory Related Networking Technologies Lends Traction to Market Growth
  • Mobile Technologies Enable Real-time Data Capture & Access for Creating Connected Production Environment
  • Growing Use of Mobile Devices & Mobile Apps in Manufacturing Environments
  • Overhaul of Existing Network Technologies: Essential for Industry 4.0
  • 5G: A Network Technology with Enormous Potential to Drive Adoption of Industry 4.0
  • Big Data and Cloud Computing: The New ICT Frontiers for Industry 4.0 Implementations
  • Analytics: Critical for Making Sense of Data Deluge Resulting from the Transition to Smart Manufacturing
  • Using Data for Enhaced Decision Making
  • Smart Manufacturing: The Largest Application Area for Big Data Enabled Market
  • Manufacturing-as-a-Service: An Apt Answer to the Growing Need for Mass Customization
  • Rising Need to Integrate Physical, Networking and Computation Processes Drives Demand for Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Machine Tools: Promising Cyber Physical Systems
  • Digital Twin and the Virtual Twin: Enabling Self- Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Digital Twin, the Next-Generation Manufacturing Software: Essential for Industry 4.0
  • Augmented Reality Offers Huge Market Potential as a Critical Component of Industry 4.0
  • Industry 4.0 to Create Need for Mobile AR in Manufacturing Sector
  • Enterprise Mobility, BYOD and CYOD to Drive Adoption of Mobile AR and Smart Wearables in Production Plants
  • First-Person View (FPV) Communications Significantly Reduce Personnel Overheads
  • Inspection, Maintenance & Repair of Production Floor Machinery: The Hands-Free View' Attribute of Smart AR Glasses
  • The Vital Nature of Automated Material Handling in Industry 4.0 Spurs Market Demand
  • Autonomous Vehicles: The Future of Material Handling Automation
  • Self-Driving Vehicles to Transform Logistics Marketplace
  • Advanced Robotics Impacts Automated Material Handling Equipment
  • Promise of Improved Energy Savings Augurs Well for Adoption of Smart Factory Solutions
  • Automotive Production Moves towards Energy Efficiency through Industry 4.0 Solutions
  • Rising Popularity of Customization and Plug-and- Produce Concept Bodes Well for Smart Factories
  • MES/MOM Systems: A Competing or Complimentary Technology to Smart Manufacturing?
  • Manufacturing Execution System (MES): A Vital Cog in the Digitized Manufacturing Industry
  • Myriad Benefits of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Drives Demand in the Manufacturing Industry
  • Complexity of Modern Industrial Processes Provides a Business Case for SCADA
  • Demand for Smart and Intelligent Sensors as Basic Building Blocks of Smart Factories Gain Momentum
  • Smart Machinery & Robotics: The Next Big Thing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Autonomous Robots: Powering the Factory of the Future
  • 3D Printing Revolutionizes Manufacturing with Improved Productivity & Competitiveness, Bodes Well for the Market
  • Rapid Manufacturing or DDM: Emerging Application of 3D Printing
  • Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts: An Evolving Market
  • Mass Customization Represent the Key to Growth
  • 3D Printing: Can it Completely Replace Conventional Manufacturing?
  • Limitations on Material Usage: A Key Constraint
  • High Material Cost: A Major Obstacle
  • Legislations & Intellectual Property Protection: Threats to 3D Printing Market
  • Favorable Regulations and Standards Promote Adoption of Smart Factory Solutions on Factory Floors
  • Standardization of Technologies: Critical for Smart Manufacturing Implementations
  • Open Platform to Facilitate Migration towards Smart Manufacturing
  • Automotive Manufacturing Industry: Pioneering Smart Factory Solutions Adoption to Counter Threat of Tech Majors
  • Technology Advancements Disrupt Healthy Growth of Contract Manufacturing in Automotive Industry
  • Pivotal Role of Additive Manufacturing in Future Automotive Production
  • Autonomous Drive Technology to Impact Automotive Manufacturing
  • Shift to Autonomous Driving Promotes the Need for Cross- Sectoral Collaborations in Automotive Manufacturing
  • Beer Brewing Industry: Another Important Industry Set to Adopt Industry 4.0
  • Digitization in Beer Brewing Industry



3. INNOVATIONS, ADVANCEMENTS, AND IMPLEMENTATIONS

  • Smart Factory Related Innovations and Advancements: Spearheading Growth
  • Siemens' Totally Integrated Automation (TIA): Foundation of Manufacturing Digitization
  • GE's Transformational Real-time Operational Intelligence
  • genua's Cyber-Diode for Improved IT Security in Smart Factory Environments
  • Baxter Robot: The Worker's Friend
  • HARTING's Solutions for Integrated Industry
  • SmartFactoryOWL: An Integrated System for Needs-Oriented Assembly Operations
  • Siemens Digital Enterprise Platform
  • Asseco's APplus ERP II Solutions for SMEs
  • BOGE airstatus Remote Diagnostics Tool to Transform Human- Machine Communications
  • Siemens's Smart Factory Related PLM Software
  • Huawei's Smart and Connected Industrial Network Solution
  • Flexible Conveyor Matrix Enables Networked & Cognitive Production
  • M&M Cloud-based Service Platform Aids Continual Condition Monitoring
  • ORBIS MPS for Transparency of Processes in Production & Intralogistics Areas
  • Programmable Automation Controller (PAC): Combining PLC Features with Real-Time Motion Control
  • Schaeffler Develops New Torque Sensor Technology
  • SICK IO-Link Sensors Provide Better Capabilities to Packaging Machines
  • Trebing + Himstedt Develop Self-Organized Capacity Management System
  • Openmatics Develops ZF Logistics Tag based on BLE Technology
  • Recent Noteworthy Applications of Smart Factory/ Industry 4.0 Solutions in the Manufacturing World
  • Audi's Smart Manufacturing Facility
  • Foxconn Uses CNC Machines
  • BMW Group Implements Industry 4.0
  • FirstBuild's Internet-enabled Refrigerator with 3D-Printed Accessories
  • Weidmüller Chooses Smart Technology for Regulating Fluctuations in Production
  • ARBURG Employs Industrie 4.0 for Production of Individualized Products
  • Bosch Rexroth Adopts Industrie 4.0 Concepts in Electrohydraulic Valves Assembly Line
  • ebm-papst Benefits from Digitalization of Production Processes
  • Siemens & Festo Collaborate for Innovative Multi-Carrier-System
  • ifm electronic Deploys Sensors for Monitoring Status of Water Supply in Brazil
  • Sigma Air Manager 2 Master Controller Enables Intelligent Use of Compressed Air
  • KSB's Digital Pump Solutions: Improving Production Functions & Services
  • KUKA's Robot Provides Flexibility to Siemens Lead Factory for Electric Motors
  • Schwering & Hasse Uses proALPHA Software for Automated Analysis of Production Data
  • Eickhoff Wind Power Implements PROXIA Software for Seamless Production Monitoring
  • Other Important Smart Factory/Industry 4.0 Adoptions and Implementations
  • Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies Adoption by 20 Global Players in a Nutshell: Details of Company Name, Enabling Technology, and Industry 4.0 Initiative

4. KEY ISSUES & CHALLENGES


  • Huge Investments & Complex Networks
  • Lack of Standardization and Privacy Concerns
  • Cyber Security: A Major Risk of Industry 4.0
  • Loss of Employment Opportunities
  • Solutions to Resolve Technical Challenges Facing Establishment of Smart Factories
  • Intelligent Negotiation and Decision-Making Mechanism
  • High-Speed IWN Protocols
  • Increased Focus on Manufacturing-Specific Big Data
  • Control Measures for Self-Organized Systems

5. SMART FACTORY AND INDUSTRY 4.0: AN OVERVIEW

  • Smart Factory: A Prelude
  • Major Components of Smart Factory Vision
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • System Architecture of Smart Factory
  • Structure of Automation Systems for Smart Factory
  • Smart Factory Solutions by Type
  • Industry 4.0: An Evolutionary Scan
  • First Industrial Revolution
  • Second Industrial Revolution
  • Third Industrial Revolution
  • Fourth Industrial Revolution/Industry 4.0
  • Industry 4.0: Convergence of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IoS)
  • Principles of Industry 4.0
  • The Four Primary Characteristics of Industry 4.0
  • Smart Systems, Networking and Vertical Integration
  • Horizontal Integration via Worldwide Value Chain Networks
  • Through-engineering of Value Chain
  • Acceleration Using Exponential Technologies
  • Key Industry 4.0 Enabling Information and Communication (ICT) Technologies
  • Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Big Data & Analytics
  • IT System Security
  • Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing
  • Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Robotics/Humanoid Robots

6. SOLUTION LAUNCHES

  • Mentor Graphics Unveils Valor® IoT Manufacturing Solution
  • Tornos UK to Introduce TISIS 2.0 Software
  • ADLINK to Introduce MICA Platform
  • Cyrptosoft Releases Latest Version of Cryptosoft Platform
  • Siemens to Unveil Profinet-Compatible NCUs
  • Mentor Graphics Launches OML Initiative for PCB Assembly
  • MVTec Software to Unveil Machine Vision Products for Industry 4.0
  • Siemens Releases Version 8.2 of Simatic PCS 7 Process Control System
  • Icon Labs Releases Floodgate Modbus Protocol Filtering Product
  • blacksands Unveils New IIoT Technology
  • ABB Launches IRBT 2005 Platform
  • Fanuc and Cisco to Commercialize IoT-based System
  • Ubisense Group to Unveil New Modules for Industry 4.0
  • AIS Releases IoT and Industry 4.0 HMI-Ready Platforms
  • Deutsche Telekom Unveils Connected Industry Platform (CIP)
  • Rethink Robotics to Unveil Sawyer Manufacturing Robot
  • Siemens Extends Simatic® S7-1200 Range of Compact Controllers
  • Siemens Adds New Applications to Sinumerik Integrate for Production Software Suite
  • Siemens Launches Sinumerik 840D sl Machine Tool Solutions
  • Siemens Adds New Functions to Sinumerik Operate Graphical User Interface
  • AIS Introduces Compact Automation Panels
  • CENIT Unveils New FASTSUITE Edition 2 Software
  • Mentor Graphics Releases Latest Version of Valor® Process Preparation Software
  • Mitsubishi Electric Develops Internet of things (IoT) Factory Controller
  • Arkados Introduces Process & Event Management System (PEMS) Solution
  • Finesse Solutions Unveils SmartFactory Architecture for Single-Use Facilities
  • Kraftwurx Launches Kraftwurx® Platform
  • Indegene Introduces IndegeneConnect

7. RECENT INDUSTRY ACTIVITY

  • Airbone and Siemens Establish FieldLab in Netherlands
  • Siemens to Takeover CD-adapco
  • Wi-NEXT and IBM Enter into Partnership
  • CTC Stade and Plataine to Partner for Industry 4.0
  • Rockwell Automation to Takeover MagneMotion
  • SolidRun and nemetris Deploy IoT in Automotive Manufacturing
  • LSIS Announces Smart Factory Initiative
  • BinMaster in Strategic Alliance with Device Solutions for Cloud-based Remote Monitoring IIoT Solutions
  • Telit Forms IoT Factory Solutions Business Unit
  • Nobilia Deploys IoT & Automation Systems in German Factories
  • Infineon Technologies to Set Up New Factory in Wuxi
  • TECO to Acquire Motovario
  • Dürr Acquires iTAC
  • Infineon Establishes New Production and R&D Complex for Industry 4.0 in Austria
  • DEKRA to Acquire AT4 wireless
  • CENIT Acquires Stake in Coristo
  • Huawei and NXP Semiconductors Partner for Industry 4.0 Markets
  • EXOR Partners with NEXCOM for Smart Manufacturing
  • Tianjin to Begin Building of Smart Manufacturing Demonstration Areas
  • Huawei and SAP Extend Partnership in Industry 4.0
  • Siemens to Takeover Camstar Systems
  • D2M to Establish 3D Printing Factory in Dubai
  • Voith Takes Over Stake in KUKA
  • Rockwell Automation and AT&T Collaborate for Smart Machines

8. FOCUS ON SELECT GLOBAL PLAYERS

9. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE

Total Companies Profiled: 127 (including Divisions/Subsidiaries 133)

  • The United States (35)
  • Canada (2)
  • Japan (2)
  • Europe (69)
  • - France (9)
  • - Germany (36)
  • - The United Kingdom (5)
  • - Italy (1)
  • - Spain (2)
  • - Rest of Europe (16)
  • Asia-Pacific (Excluding Japan) (21)
  • Africa (1)
  • Middle East (3)

For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/s2dt9h/smart_factory

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