Smart manufacturing: Characteristics, technologies and enabling factors
By Sameer Mittal, Muztoba Ahmad Khan, David Romero, Thorsten Wuest. 2019
473 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The purpose of this article is to collect and structure the various characteristics, technologies and enabling factors available in the current body of knowledge that are associated with smart manufacturing. Eventually, it is expected that this selection of characteristics, technologies and enabling factors will help compare and distinguish other initiatives such as Industry 4.0, cyber-physical production systems, smart factory, intelligent manufacturing and advanced manufacturing, which are frequently used synonymously with smart manufacturing. The result of this article is a comprehensive list of such characteristics, technologies and enabling factors that are regularly associated with smart manufacturing. This article also considers principles of “semantic similarity” to establish the basis for a future smart manufacturing ontology, since it was found that many of the listed items show varying overlaps; therefore, certain characteristics and technologies are merged and/or clustered. This results in a set of five defining characteristics, 11 technologies and three enabling factors that are considered relevant for the smart manufacturing scope. This article then evaluates the derived structure by matching the characteristics and technology clusters of smart manufacturing with the design principles of Industry 4.0 and cyber-physical systems. The authors aim to provide a solid basis to start a broad and interdisciplinary discussion within the research and industrial community about the defining characteristics, technologies and enabling factors of smart manufacturing.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation
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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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In Management of Technology and Innovation
Citations in the corpus
- The applications of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing context: a systematic literature review (2020, background): “According to Mittal et al. (2019) and Monostori et al. (2016), the applied form of CPS in production is CPPS, which is an interchangeable term for smart factory (Chen et al. 2017).”
- Security of smart manufacturing systems (2018, background): “2 we re-present an ontology drawn from the recent review found in [10], which explains smart manufacturing in terms of eleven technology characteristics, five defining principles and three enabling technologies that are used to define smart manufacturing.”
- The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review (2019, background): “CPS technology can help to effectively improve the manufacturing process in the concept of smart manufacturing [6].”
- Organizational learning paths based upon industry 4.0 adoption: An empirical study with Brazilian manufacturers (2020, background): “Mittal et al. (2019), based on an extensive literature review, consolidated a set of five defining characteristics, 11 technologies and three enabling factors relevant for I4.”