Machine Tools and Industry 4.0 - Trends of Development

Abstract

Primary goals of trends of digitalization in the Industry are increasing of efficiency, productivity and quality of product. As a basic unit of modern manufacturing industry, numerical controlled machine tools have important role in industrial digitalization. Their improvement trough implementation of digitally connected components and subsystems enables a creation of an adaptive mechatronic system which can be a part of connected production system. This paper describes some of the key and desired characteristics of Machine Tool 4.0 such as Cyber-physical Machine Tools, vertically and horizontally integrated machine tools and more intelligent, autonomous and safer machine tools.