ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/879572/trumpf-smart-factory-chicago-barkow-leibinger Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/879572/trumpf-smart-factory-chicago-barkow-leibinger The factory and the exhibition space – ordinarily, these two project types would lie worlds apart for an architect. With one, functionality and cost-efficiency reign; with the other, the highest demands are placed on design and quality of execution. A new presentation and sales center for the German machine tool and laser manufacturer TRUMPF near Chicago combines both worlds and turns high-tech machines and innovative production processes into exhibition-like showpieces. Here, an Industry 4.0 demonstration factory fitted with digitally networked machines presents the entire sheet metal process chain, from ordering a sheet metal part to its design, production, and delivery, experienced as an intelligently interlinked, holistic process.

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