Smart manufacturing is arriving. It promises a future of mass-producing highly personalized
products via responsive autonomous manufacturing operations at a competitive cost. Of …

Today, the manufacturing industry is aiming to improve competitiveness through the
convergence with cutting-edge ICT technologies in order to secure a new growth engine …

The traditional production paradigm of large batch production does not offer flexibility toward
satisfying the requirements of individual customers. A new generation of smart factories is …

The information and communication technology (ICT) field is rapidly advancing and has
developed several disrupting technologies, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, big …

Smart manufacturing has attracted significant attention from both researchers and
manufacturing experts owing to its capability of accomplish the goals of Industry 4.0. It …

Today's manufacturers face ever-increasing demands of variability—greater customization,
smaller lot sizes, sudden supply-chain changes and disruptions. Successful manufacturers …

The research proposes a metric referred to as Smart Manufacturing Performance Measures
(SMPMs), which are mapped with manufacturing decisions (structural and infrastructural) …

Abstract Information and communication technology is undergoing rapid development, and
many disruptive technologies, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, and …

With growing evidence of advanced technologies-assisted smart processes, it is
fundamental to comprehend whether manufacturing systems are adequate to manage …

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 …