Cloud Computing Application for Digital Integration Between an Advanced Manufacturing Plant and a Model 4.0 Factory

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is a global digitalization goal for today’s industries, and cloud computing is a solution that enables ubiquitous and convenient access to infrastructure, platforms, and services. Together with fog and edge computing, it leverages the advantages of manufacturing systems integration. This research proposes a cloud architecture to integrate an advanced manufacturing plant and a SENAI CIMATEC model factory. Before implementing this architecture, assessing whether the environment is adaptable is necessary. For this, fundamentals such as the TOE structure (Technology-Organization-Environment Framework) and the SEM model (Structural Equation Modeling) are used, which evaluate the degree of adherence for the application. As a methodological procedure for the research, a database is being modeled to serve the information flow between the systems. Therefore, adapting the environment to cloud computing is crucial to the success of digital system integration and process automation and optimization advances.