PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Kováč, Jozef AU - Malega, Peter AU - Kováč, Juraj TI - Comprehensive Integration in Smart Factories of the Future DP - 2017 Oct 31 TA - Acta Mechanica Slovaca PG - 20--27 VI - 21 IP - 2 AID - 10.21496/ams.2017.013 IS - 13352393 AB - The vision of a highly flexible, especially automated, customer-adapted production that forms the basis for the futuristic intelligent factory concept requires innovative solutions that allow vertical and horizontal integration of realized production but also non-production processes and their realization production systems. The goal is horizontal and vertical integration, as well as integrated digital integration of engineering throughout the value chain of production the final product and necessary services.