Siemens on the future of self-organizing factories:
In smart factories, communities of machines will organize themselves, supply chaings will automatically coordinate with one another, and unfinished products will send the data needed for their processing to the machines that will turn them into merchandise.
More on the Industry 4.0 initiative from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany.
About Mark Benson
Mark Benson is Head of Samsung SmartThings, author of The Art of Software Thermal Management for Embedded Systems, and is a regular speaker and writer on leadership, organizational behavior, and the future of the smart home.