The Intelligent Factory Of The Future Along The Life Cycle - Contributions Of Smartfactorykl To Further Development Of Automation

SmartFactory is an initiative for development, optimization, and application of new products, processes, and technologies and therefore contributes to further development of automation. The article points out how the initiative is related to the thesis "Automation 2020" of the German "VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik".