Carlos Toro - Implementing Industry 4.0: The Model Factory as the Key Enabler for the Future of Manufacturing

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Innovation through collaboration is an Industry 4.0 specialty that is fully realized by the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Center (ARTC) in Singapore. There is a perfect ecosystem alignment of talent, policies, collaborators, and vision within Singapore to reshape the way institutional research and industry transformation can be synergized to exponentially escalate concepts into practice.

Launching in 2015 and in a short 5 years until this publication, the ARTC has made a sizable mark in Industry 4.0 research and transformation for some of the worlds most massive manufacturers to smallmedium enterprises around the region. Through the eyes of Arcstone, a next-generation digital manufacturing solutions company, we have accelerated our growth multi-fold by investing our time and resources into the ARTC and working with the exact same people you are going to read about in this book. The ARTC consists of brilliant minds that have blended expert industry knowledge with the research might of a national research agency, A*STAR. This is a potent combination designed to bring about rapid solutions into the industry and drive immediate economic, business, and sustainability.

Countless hours of research and centuries worth of combined industry experience have generated ecosystem impacting concepts and solutions detailed in this book. For researchers, practitioners, and industry players alike, leverage this knowledge to further advance Industry 4.0, optimize manufacturing operations, and revamp your business models respectively. Leverage this book as a steppingstone to join in on the collaborative nature of the ARTC and see how we can all continue to drive Industry 4.0 forward!

The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is permeating heavily into the manufacturing landscape. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Multi-National Companies (MNCs) alike want to see how Industry 4.0 is implemented as soon as possible and in the lesser disruptive manner, so they can continue focusing on production while taking advantage of the technologies associated.

National programs positioning countries in their respective regions have been approved and put into action. In Europe, the EU Commission launched the Factories of the Future program (20082020), committing an investment of 2.35B in a publicprivate partnership (PPP). The research domains include advanced manufacturing processes, digital, virtual, and resource-efficient factories.

In the case of Asia-Pacific region, one of the most relevant efforts is Singapores own Future of Manufacturing (FoM), led by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). In order to implement FoM, A*STAR has created the Model Factory (MF) program.