Case Studies, News | 18.08.2025

How to Build a Smart Factory – With Seamless IT/OT Integration and Event-Driven Architecture

The agricultural machinery manufacturer KRONE is building its new Smart Factory from the ground up. The basis: an event-driven architecture. It ensures that information is processed in near real time. This makes production more efficient, robust and scalable. The biggest challenge? Networking a wide variety of machines and systems. In addition, the factory must be AI-capable and save energy. KRONE developed and successfully implemented this architecture together with Cybus, NTT DATA and the FIR e. V. at RWTH Aachen University.

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