THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL FACTORY IN TODAY’S WORLD

Abstract

Digital manufacturing has been considered, over the last decade, as a highly promising set of technologies for reducing product development times and cost as well as for addressing the need for customization, increased product quality, and faster response to the market. Digital Factory (DF) represents a virtual picture of a real production. It is the environment integrated by computer and information technologies, in which the reality is replaced by virtual computer models. One of very important properties of Digital Factory is the vision to realize process planning and product development with parallel utilisation of common data. It is very important to gain all required data only one time and then to manage them with the uniform data control, so that all software systems will be able to utilize it.