The Factory of the Future project aims to create solid bases for structural understanding of the overall production process and identify the crucial points where intervention could take place to increase WTEX productivity, efficiency, waste reduction, and market competitiveness. Together with CONNECT5, this project gives WTEX the technological advances needed to innovate in a very competitive market.
To help reduce textile waste and improve efficiency at WTEX, the solution proposes to monitor the production process of their products to more easily detect flaws and be able to adjust them. To do this, the Factory of the Future proposes to use the following technologies: (1) IoT devices - Making data work together, regardless of what systems they originate from; (2) Digital Twins - aiming to digitalise the entire WTEX supply chain in order to assess the sustainability of each step of this chain; (3) Private 5G; (4) Edge Computing - which moves compute and analytics closer to the points where data is generated and used; (5) Cloud Computing - will give WTEX employees access to storage, files, software, and servers through their internet-connected devices.
