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Digital Factory and Managerial Tools

Enterprises and management are under the pressure to improve the efficiency based on their needs and the technology development. In this paper we use an analytically – based field study to investigate our proposition regarding the active role of managerial tolls in enacting and (re)formulating a strategy. Information and communication technologies are an important driver of efficiency in manufacturing and organizational issues. Currently, computer-aided tools are developed under the name “Digital Factory” and they are mainly directed towards development and application of the methods, instruments and tools for modeling, simulation, visualization and optimization of products, manufacturing resources and processes. Not only must today’s factories be flexible enough to accommodate multiple product series and short product lifecycles, but periodically a significant design modification may require a complete reconfiguration. Digital planning is a key to optimization, because it quickly improves and provides planning results, as well as reducing total costs and time. A synthesis of methods, information technologies and application of business intelligence in practice, may develop a new qualitative enterprise system in order to improve the work on operational level, and especially to help the top management in decision making processes, that are important for survival and development of enterprises. It is a managerial tool that balances what is needed to be spent against what can be afforded, and help make choices about priorities. There should be a strong integration of technologies and management using information technologies.

Digital factory; Managerial tools; Computer-aided tools; Information technology

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