The Future of Smart Production for SMEs

Preface and Introduction · Preface I (Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Science, AAU)
· Preface II (Chairman of Laurits Andersen Fund)
· Executive summary
· Acknowledgements
· About the authors
Authors: Ulrich, Ole, Charles, Brian, Astrid and Casper +invited authors

Part I Definition and Implementation of Smart Production
This Part in introduce the topics we cover in the book.
It contains three main chapters:
1. The Vision of Smart Production
2. The status of Smart Production implementations
3. Challenges for SMEs
1. The Vision of Smart Production In this chapter we will define the concept and visions of smart production and smart factories.
· Definition of Industry 4.0 and Smart Production
· Motivation/Background
o Technology push:
o Marked pull
· Evolutionary and revolutionary movements in industry.
o Industry 4.0 (Germany)
o Factory of the Futures (FoF) (EU)
o Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) (USA)
o …
· What´s “inside” (intro – more in following chapters)
2. The implementation status of Smart Production Here we will give an evaluation of the status of smart production in industry. We will here rely on literature, findings from numerous study trips and statements from invited industrial and institutional stakeholders.
· Result of literature study
· Experience from maturity assessments:
o Input from Fraunhofer
o Experiences from DK
· Findings from international study tours
· Interview and statements (according to capacity and availability from 1 page testimonials up to 3 page essay form) from industrial companies (front runners (large companies)):
§ Siemens Gamesa, NOVO, Grundfos, LINAK, Daimler ???
· TODO: Define what we need here: structured case studies
o Motivation: Why did you engage in Smart production
o Strategic agenda: What have you done in the previous years
o 1-2 examples
o Your findings: What was the motivation, methodology, road map, result, failures…
o Plans: Where are you now, and what will you do the next 3-4 years
3. Challenges for SMEs We outline the challenges of SMEs and highlight how we in the following chapter will provide tools for SMEs
· Challenge for SMEs
o Literature study
· Practical examples
· Important challenges:
o Interdisciplinary approach needed
o Awareness of the technology components (more in the chapter on enabling technologies)
o Competences (what is needed and how do train) (more in section on competences)
o Take up procedure (More in concept and methods for smarty production)
o Difficult to quantify the effects of Smart production in advance.

Part II Facilitating the transformation in SMEs
4. Smart Production Transfer centers In this chapter we will argue that there is a need for “transfer centers and platforms” which can support the uptake of Smart Production.
We will investigate some of these, examining the approach used in the different centers. Colleagues from various center will provide input. E.g:
o Fraunhofer institutes
o ARENA2036, German federal funded Innovation Campus Automotive, Stuttgart,
o German federal network of SME competence centers
o Slawek, Poland
o Uni Bergamo, Italy
o Hermann Vermaak, South Africa
A closer look at the approach used at Aalborg University (AAU), and Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany
5. General Methodology In this chapter we will address methodologies for increasing the take up of Smart Production (and digitalization in general).
A methodology will be presented which is particular focused on the needs of SMEs. The method is characterized by being adaptive and iterative leading to tailor made roadmaps, prototypes and solutions.
6. Practical experiences with transformation in SMEs This chapter contains descriptions of some practical examples from SMEs.

Part III Key Enablers
7. Technologies This section contains some practical examples of technology that goes into Smart Production (short descriptions + examples) (1-3 pages each)
· IOT
· AI-applications
· AR/VR technologies
· Machine learning
· 5G/Preben
· Standards…
· Collaborative robots
· …
8. Light weigh demonstrators When working with SMEs it is important quickly to show practical demonstrators/examples. For this purpose a number of simple demonstrator kits has been developed (e.g for demonstrating IoT) . In this section we will investigate some of these and show how they can be used by SMEs to facilitate the transformation towards Smart Production.
Part IV Human Factors
Smart Production is not technology alone. The human factor is very important.
In this section we will address this issue. We will discuss which competences are needed and how learning and training can be performed in the SMES
9. Competences (learning and training) 10. Sand box environments and learning factories
Part IV Perspectives
In this section we will address some of the trends within Smart Production and investigate how this might affect SMEs.
11. SMART Sustainable Production Green deal – next transformation ?
12. Swarm Production 13. 5G and smart production

Part IV Conclusion
14. Conclusion