Factory Designer
The Smart Factory Platform for Closed-Loop Manufacturing
Factory Designer connects digital twins of products, processes, and production resources. Real production data continuously flows back into planning and control, allowing for ongoing optimization of production costs and machine utilization.
From Production Planning to Closed-Loop Manufacturing
A manufacturing control center creates a plan. However, real production constantly alters its conditions: machines are down, speeds change, materials become scarce, and deadlines or quantities shift.
Factory Designer transforms production planning into a continuously operating feedback loop.
Planning and control are linked to the current state of real production. Changes are fed back into the planning process and can be automatically taken into account during the next optimization.
Product-CPS
Knows about its Process Design, how it is manufactured. A production requirement from ERP specifies the quantity and deadline.
Resource-CPS
Machines, materials, tools, and aggregates are aware of their production-relevant properties, capabilities, and states.
Instances
The product CPS is the actual Digital Twin of the product and can generate the required product instances.
Digital twins are becoming active participants in production.
In Factory Designer, digital twins are not merely replicas of real objects. They possess the knowledge required for their tasks in production.
The ProcessDesigner describes how production is carried out.
The creation of a product is not rigidly defined in an ERP work plan. Production knowledge is modeled in the ProcessDesigner. The ProcessDesigner does not merely describe the sequence of operations, but rather the production network and its potential relationships.
The PlanningWorkflow is the networker.
The PlanningWorkflow connects the CPS available in the ProcessDesigner. It aligns the product requirements with the capabilities and current states of the production resources, thereby organizing the production planning. If the conditions change, work will not continue based on an increasingly outdated plan. The network can be reassessed and optimized under the new conditions.
Digital production knows real production.
Factory Designer connects its Digital Twins directly with machines, systems, databases, and other data sources.
Node → Attribute of the Digital Twin → Processing Method → Production Information
Examples of processing methods: Counter · Interrupt Trigger · Event
This results in current production information such as actual quantity, actual speed, machine status, and OEE.
The Digital Twin not only knows what was planned; it also understands the current state of real production.
The optimization focuses not on the plan, but on the production.
The plan is not the goal. The economically optimal production is the goal.
High machine utilization is not automatically economical. A high OEE is not automatically cost-effective. Factory Designer therefore considers production conditions in context and establishes the foundation for aligning planning and control with economic objectives.
Factory Designer plans and controls. Machine Designer analyzes.
Works with the information relevant to production control and digital twins.
Dives deep into thousands of machine nodes as needed, records data, and analyzes relationships and causes.
Together, both products complete the loop between production control and in-depth machine analysis.
Start Closed-Loop Manufacturing with Factory Designer
Where does your production planning lose touch with reality today?
Factory Designer does not have to start with a complete Smart Factory. A clearly defined production area, a product, or a specific planning task can serve as the entry point.
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