The Industry4.0Lab at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano is made by a fully automated assembly and manufacturing line. The high flexibility of the system and the modularity of the configuration allows to test and replicate virtually any variety of manufacturing and assembly system for discrete manufacturing. Moreover, the configuration of the system can be reshaped very quickly and with ad hoc modelling and simulation tools.

This allow is to act both as a research oriented lab as well as a Teaching Factory.

Thanks to its hardware and software architecture, which totally replicates a real factory ready for Industry 4.0 concepts is possible to investigate different kind of research areas within the I4.0Lab:

• Advances Manufacturing Systems;
• Manufacturing Operations;
• Maintenance Management;
• Sustainable Manufacturing;
• Simulation;
• Big Data Analytics;
• Iot and Cyber-Physical Systems;
• Combination of Production and Logistics;

I4.0Lab has been designed to address four main purposes:

• Research Projects related activities;
• Education and Training;
• Concept validation and prototyping;
• Awareness creation and Consulting.

The I4.0Lab implements a multidisciplinary vision of production environments for the realization of the teaching and research lab for the new manufacturing, thanks to the involvement of other Department of Politecnico di Milano and international Universities and Research Center.

The Industry 4.0 Lab is engaged in several research projects to practically implement new business model concepts and to develop required tools for deployment and assessment of intelligent business processes.