Can Smart Manufacturing Truly Be ‘Smart’ Without Protecting Lone Workers?
Smart manufacturing has the potential to provide highly responsive, data-driven, and efficient industrial environments, which is the promise of the technology. The more factories are interconnected, the less intelligence can be confined to machines alone; rather, it can be spread to the way people associate with systems, processes, and threats. When talking about Smart Manufacturing in Singapore , productivity and automation are the prominent topics, but the safety of the workers is a key factor that should not be overlooked, particularly the safety of the people who have to work on their own. The Core of Smart Manufacturing Smart manufacturing describes the digitisation of the manufacturing process via interconnectivity and intelligent automation. In this model: There is communication between machines Systems optimize themselves using data feedback Processes dynamically adapt to demand and conditions Nevertheless, human operators still play a major role in the management, maintenance,...