The Digital Factory

Author : Moritz Altenried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226815503

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The Digital Factory by Moritz Altenried Pdf

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism. The workers of today’s digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. The workers of today’s digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today’s digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.

Author : Luca Ghezzi,Dietmar Hömberg,Chantal Landry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319639574

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Math for the Digital Factory by Luca Ghezzi,Dietmar Hömberg,Chantal Landry Pdf

This volume provides a unique collection of mathematical tools and industrial case studies in digital manufacturing. It addresses various topics, ranging from models of single production technologies, production lines, logistics and workflows to models and optimization strategies for energy consumption in production. The digital factory represents a network of digital models and simulation and 3D visualization methods for the holistic planning, realization, control and ongoing improvement of all factory processes related to a specific product. In the past ten years, all industrialized countries have launched initiatives to realize this vision, sometimes also referred to as Industry 4.0 (in Europe) or Smart Manufacturing (in the United States). Its main goals are • reconfigurable, adaptive and evolving factories capable of small-scale production • high-performance production, combining flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defects • energy and resource efficiency in manufacturing None of these goals can be achieved without a thorough modeling of all aspects of manufacturing together with a multi-scale simulation and optimization of process chains; in other words, without mathematics. To foster collaboration between mathematics and industry in this area the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) founded a special interest group on Math for the Digital Factory (M4DiFa). This book compiles a selection of review papers from the M4DiFa kick-off meeting held at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin, Germany, in May 2014. The workshop aimed at bringing together mathematicians working on modeling, simulation and optimization with researchers and practitioners from the manufacturing industry to develop a holistic mathematical view on digital manufacturing. This book is of interest to practitioners from industry who want to learn about important mathematical concepts, as well as to scientists who want to find out about an exciting new area of application that is of vital importance for today’s highly industrialized and high-wage countries.

Author : Rene Wolf,Raffaello Lepratti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527830954

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Smart Digital Manufacturing by Rene Wolf,Raffaello Lepratti Pdf

The world progresses toward Industry 4.0, and manufacturers are challenged to successfully navigate this unique digital journey. To some, digitalization is a golden opportunity; to others, it is a necessary evil. But to optimist and pessimist alike, there is a widespread puzzlement over the practical details of digitalization. To many manufacturers, digital transformation is a vague and confusing concept they nevertheless must grapple with in order to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The proliferation of digital manufacturing technologies adds to the confusion, leaving many manufacturers perplexed and unprepared, with little real insight into how emerging technologies can help them sustain a competitive edge in their markets. This book effectively conveys Siemens's knowledge and experience through a concept called "Smart Digital Manufacturing," a stepwise approach to realizing the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Smart Digital Manufacturing roadmap provides guidance and enables low-risk, high-reward adoption of new manufacturing software technologies through a series of tipping-point investment decisions that result in optimized manufacturing performance. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of what digital technology has to offer them, and how and when to invest in these essential components of tomorrow?s factories. René Wolf is Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Operations Management Software for Siemens Digital Industries Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division. Raffaello Lepratti is Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Author : Luca Canetta,Claudia Redaelli,Myrna Flores
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1849961727

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Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production Systems by Luca Canetta,Claudia Redaelli,Myrna Flores Pdf

Digital factory is a comprehensive approach providing methodologies, models and tools that support manufacturing enterprises in the rearrangement of their organizational structures to deal with expected changes in manufacturing processes and markets. Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production Systems investigates the impact of the digital factory through a consideration of the entire product/process lifecycle, and the broad network of product engineering, material and component suppliers, manufacturing equipment suppliers, and customers involved in current and next generation manufacturing. It covers the utilization and integration of: human body ergonomics models; production system discrete event simulation; 3D/virtual and augmented reality visualization; collaborative design tools; automatic data capture; and knowledge management systems based on semantic web ontologies integrated by a continuous data management. The coverage of various types of factory and manufacturing phases, representations and simulations allows researchers in academia and industry to perform a dynamic analysis and up-to-date modeling of the processes involved. Digital Factory for Human-oriented Production Systems describes the tools that allow a move towards the integrated digital factory and underlines the business impact that companies can obtain by adopting these tools. As well as benefiting international organizations, the proposed methodologies and technologies have also been developed in order to facilitate their adoption by small or medium-sized businesses, making them relevant to all product engineers and managers who want improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their enterprises.

Author : Moritz Altenried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226815480

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The Digital Factory by Moritz Altenried Pdf

"In recent years, tech companies such as Google and Facebook have rocked the world as they have seemingly revolutionized the culture of work. We've all heard stories of lounges outfitted with ping pong tables, kitchens with kombucha on tap, and other amenities that supposedly foster creative thinking. Nothing could seem further from earlier workplaces associated with a different revolution in capitalism: factories, in which employees are required to perform highly circumscribed tasks as quickly as possible to meet quotas--for next to no pay. However, as Moritz Altenried shows in The Digital Factory, these types of workplaces are not so far from the Googleplex as we might think. While recent accounts of the transformation of labor after the demise of the factory highlight the creative, communicative, immaterial, or artistic features of contemporary labor, Altenried uncovers the factory-like conditions in which many new digital workers perform their jobs. These workers, such as video game testers, social media content moderators, and Amazon fulfillment center workers, perform highly repetitive, unskilled tasks for low and often contingent wages. Based on more than five years of research in different sites using ethnography and interviews combined with an analysis of infrastructural technologies, Altenried's book gives us a first-hand account of many new forms of digital labor that drive contemporary capitalism. He shows that though today's factories might look and feel different than they did 150 years ago, they still follow the same logics and produce the same unequal outcomes"--

Author : George Q. Huang,K.L. Mak,Paul G. Maropoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1803 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642104305

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Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology by George Q. Huang,K.L. Mak,Paul G. Maropoulos Pdf

This Proceedings volume contains articles presented at the CIRP-Sponsored Inter- tional Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET2009) that takes place December 14–16, 2009 in Hong Kong. This is the 6th DET conference in the series and the first to be held in Asia. Professor Paul Maropoulos initiated, hosted and chaired the 1st International DET Conference held in 2002 at the University of D- ham. Since this inaugural first DET conference, DET conference series has been s- cessfully held in 2004 at Seattle, Washington USA, in 2006 at Setubal Portugal, in 2007 at Bath England, and in 2008 at Nantes France. The DET2009 conference continues to bring together International expertise from the academic and industrial fields, pushing forward the boundaries of research kno- edge and best practice in digital enterprise technology for design and manufacturing, and logistics and supply chain management. Over 120 papers from over 10 countries have been accepted for presentation at DET2009 and inclusion in this Proceedings volume after stringent refereeing process. On behalf of the organizing and program committees, the Editors are grateful to the many people who have made DET2009 possible: to the authors and presenters, es- cially the keynote speakers, to those who have diligently reviewed submissions, to members of International Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and Advisory Committes, and to colleagues for their hard work in sorting out all the arrangements. We would also like to extend our gratitude to DET2009 sponsors, co-organizers, and supporting organizations.

Author : Luka Kozamernik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031510717

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Digital Factory by Luka Kozamernik Pdf

Author : Trebor Scholz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415896948

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Digital Labor by Trebor Scholz Pdf

'Digital Labor' asks whether life on the Internet is mostly work, or play. We tweet, we tag photos, we link, we review books, we comment on blogs, we remix media and we upload video to create much of the content that makes up the web.

Author : Fei Tao,Meng Zhang,A.Y.C. Nee
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128176313

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Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing by Fei Tao,Meng Zhang,A.Y.C. Nee Pdf

Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing examines the background, latest research, and application models for digital twin technology, and shows how it can be central to a smart manufacturing process. The interest in digital twin in manufacturing is driven by a need for excellent product reliability, and an overall trend towards intelligent, and connected manufacturing systems. This book provides an ideal entry point to this subject for readers in industry and academia, as it answers the questions: (a) What is a digital twin? (b) How to construct a digital twin? (c) How to use a digital twin to improve manufacturing efficiency? (d) What are the essential activities in the implementation of a digital twin? (e) What are the most important obstacles to overcome for the successful deployment of a digital twin? (f) What are the relations between digital twin and New Technologies? (g) How to combine digital twin with the New Technologies to achieve high efficiency and smartness in manufacturing? This book focuses on these problems as it aims to help readers make the best use of digital twin technology towards smart manufacturing. Analyzes the differences, synergies and possibilities for integration between digital twin technology and other technologies, such as big data, service and Internet of Things Discuss new requirements for a traditional three-dimension digital twin and proposes a methodology for a five-dimension version Investigates new models for optimized manufacturing, prognostics and health management, and cyber-physical fusion based on the digital twin

Author : Fran Yáñez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973402106

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The 20 Key Technologies of Industry 4. 0 and Smart Factories by Fran Yáñez Pdf

From Europe with "Industry 4.0" and from the US with "Smart Factory", the industrial model faces an unprecedented change. In this book we discover the 20 most important technologies that large companies are developing to continue dominating the market and thanks to which small and medium companies could increase their competitiveness and survive in a global market. This book, written in a language understandable to non-specialists, is intended to help as a navigation chart and compass, for all those who will face this fascinating challenge.IoT, AGV, RFID, RTLS, Additive Manufacturing, Collaborative Robots, PLM, Digital Twin, CPS, ... are some examples of the KETs (key enabling technologies) that we are going to show you.

Author : Chandrakant D. Patel,Chun-Hsien Chen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443138133

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Digital Manufacturing by Chandrakant D. Patel,Chun-Hsien Chen Pdf

Digital Manufacturing: Key Elements of a Digital Factory explains the different devices and agents at the factory floor level that are driving the digital manufacturing revolution, including autonomous robots, process automation, artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems. Individual chapters explore the fundamentals and benefits of major digital manufacturing tools including robotics, the industrial internet of things, digital twins, edge security, knowledge discovery, service-centric production, and related supply-chain strategies. Real-world case studies from industry are provided throughout to show how these work in practice. In addition to learning about individual technologies, readers will discover how they are integrating to drive the digital transformation of manufacturing ecosystem. Final sections present new business models working towards sustainable net zero operations and economy. Helps produce the "T-shaped" engineers needed in today’s digital manufacturing age by providing carefully selected foundational information from a range of disciplines Includes important coverage of cybersecurity models and analysis Draws on industry best practice to explain how to implement cutting-edge technologies successfully

Author : Chandrakant D. Patel,Chun-Hsien Chen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443138126

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Digital Manufacturing by Chandrakant D. Patel,Chun-Hsien Chen Pdf

Digital Manufacturing: Key Elements of a Digital Factory explains the different devices and agents at the factory floor level that are driving the digital manufacturing revolution, including autonomous robots, process automation, artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems. Individual chapters explore the fundamentals and benefits of major digital manufacturing tools including robotics, the industrial internet of things, digital twins, edge security, knowledge discovery, service-centric production, and related supply-chain strategies. Real-world case studies from industry are provided throughout to show how these work in practice. In addition to learning about individual technologies, readers will discover how they are integrating to drive the digital transformation of manufacturing ecosystem. Final sections present new business models working towards sustainable net zero operations and economy.

Author : José Braz,Helder Araújo,Alves Vieira,Bruno Encarnação
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9048106095

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Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics I by José Braz,Helder Araújo,Alves Vieira,Bruno Encarnação Pdf

This is a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The papers focus on real world applications, covering three main themes: Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics and Automation, Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control. The book will interest professionals in the areas of control and robotics.

Author : Zude Zhou,Shane (Shengquan) Xie,Dejun Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857295644

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Fundamentals of Digital Manufacturing Science by Zude Zhou,Shane (Shengquan) Xie,Dejun Chen Pdf

The manufacturing industry will reap significant benefits from encouraging the development of digital manufacturing science and technology. Digital Manufacturing Science uses theorems, illustrations and tables to introduce the definition, theory architecture, main content, and key technologies of digital manufacturing science. Readers will be able to develop an in-depth understanding of the emergence and the development, the theoretical background, and the techniques and methods of digital manufacturing science. Furthermore, they will also be able to use the basic theories and key technologies described in Digital Manufacturing Science to solve practical engineering problems in modern manufacturing processes. Digital Manufacturing Science is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers and researchers in the manufacturing industry. It allows readers to integrate the theories and technologies described with their own research works, and to propose new ideas and new methods to improve the theory and application of digital manufacturing science.

Author : Rene Wolf,Raffaello Lepratti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527348626

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Smart Digital Manufacturing by Rene Wolf,Raffaello Lepratti Pdf

The world progresses toward Industry 4.0, and manufacturers are challenged to successfully navigate this unique digital journey. To some, digitalization is a golden opportunity; to others, it is a necessary evil. But to optimist and pessimist alike, there is a widespread puzzlement over the practical details of digitalization. To many manufacturers, digital transformation is a vague and confusing concept they nevertheless must grapple with in order to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The proliferation of digital manufacturing technologies adds to the confusion, leaving many manufacturers perplexed and unprepared, with little real insight into how emerging technologies can help them sustain a competitive edge in their markets. This book effectively conveys Siemens's knowledge and experience through a concept called "Smart Digital Manufacturing," a stepwise approach to realizing the promise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Smart Digital Manufacturing roadmap provides guidance and enables low-risk, high-reward adoption of new manufacturing software technologies through a series of tipping-point investment decisions that result in optimized manufacturing performance. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of what digital technology has to offer them, and how and when to invest in these essential components of tomorrow?s factories. René Wolf is Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Operations Management Software for Siemens Digital Industries Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division. Raffaello Lepratti is Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Siemens Digital Industries Software.