How to design a smart factory?

The enabling technologies of today creates a lot of opportunities. Hence, with all the differentchoices the complexity of different hardware and software increases. Furthermore, thecommunication between all the system needs a structure in order to make the whole system moreflexible, proactive and productive factory. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how a smartfactory can be designed in terms of communication and interoperability between systems. To beable to demonstrate this a drone factory has been built in order to show a smart factory, from inhouselogistics to end-on-line quality check. This paper uses the pathway framework to describethe development of the smart drone factory