What does the factory of the future look like?
There are a number of takes on this of course, led by Germany's Industry 4.0 program, focused on the next generation "smart factory," with the similar but in many ways also complementary vision for the industrial internet coming out of the US.
The consultants from McKinsey recently provided their on take on this with a view of the factory of the future, which it defines as the adoption of a range of new digital technologies, as shown the graphic below:
That's a pretty good summary, SCDigest thinks. McKinsey presents this under a broader framework it calls "Ops 4.0," and says "Combining people, novel digital technologies, and advanced analytics can yield a new breakthrough in productivity if companies learn to weave them all together."
The good new: all of the above technologies are largely here today, though adoption of course still lags - a people may be the biggest obstacle.
This new world also means "erasing the traditional boundaries between the supply chain, manufacturing, and fulfillment," McKinsey says.
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