Miller Magazine Issue: 125 May 2020

84 MILLER / MAY 2020 “Realization of smart production in flour mills is actually to put Industry 4.0 in practice with all its elements. First step is to decide. When you took decision, it means that you decided whether you want to be able to respond to market demands faster, to increase Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), and to reduce losses in parameters like energy, raw material and time. After taking decision, you have to start with digital transformation, but you should not forget that a smart factory does not mean necessarily a 'dark factory'. Human has still a role.” Smart production possibility in mills and essential elements What are smart production and smart factory? One comes across in literature both with the “smart production” term and maybe more frequ- ently with “smart factory” term. There are many definitions made for them. All of them are based on the “advanced manufacturing” concept whi- ch was once used widely in USA 1 . Hence, un- derstanding smart production is actually studying and understanding the transition from advanced production to smart production. Smart production which is summarized shortly by some experts as “the self-controlling produ- ction type” 2 is also defined as “a set of manu- facturing practices that use information techno- logies and network data” 3 There are definitions for smart factory, but ins- tead of going into detail of them, we can say that it is a quite flexible system working and learning in real time and running the processes autono- mously. For being able to set up such a flexible system, and to self-control itself, automation functions such as data collection, data analysis, and control Dr. Ahmet Yalçınkaya Management Coordinator Molino Mechanical Industry and Trade Inc