Industry 4.0-Oriented Automatic Assembly Systems to Support Automotive Electrification
The fourth industrial revolution is a transformative and global phenomenon, based on connectivity and the improved use of industrial data. It uses several technological pillars, including simulations, to optimize processes in real time and maximize their efficiency. However, there are uncertainties about how these technologies should be implemented at the strategic, technical and human capital levels. For example, a gap can be identified in the scientific literature on how different technologies from Industry 4.0 can support the transformation of global automotive electrification. That said, this research project aims to model the architecture of technologies and competences for production according to Industry 4.0, enabling and optimizing the production of electric and combustion vehicles in hybrid plants. For that, the technological pillars, the success cases and the challenges reported by the pertinent literature are reviewed. Therefore, managerial skills and actions are proposed to foster these skills, and a state-of-the-art architecture is defined, encompassing several promising technologies from Industry 4.0. It is expected that the actions and structure proposed by this project bring optimization and synergy between the various pillars such as interoperability, simulations, virtual reality and cybersecurity.