Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions of Smart Manufacturing: A State of Art Review

Abstract

Smart manufacturing is the technology utilizing the interconnected machines and tools for improving manufacturing performance and optimizing the energy and workforce required by the implementation of bigdata processing, artificial intelligence and advanced robotics technology and interconnectivity of them. This paper defines and discusses the smart manufacturing system and states it current implementation status and analyzes the gap between current manufacturing system and the predicted future smart manufacturing system, discusses the technologies associated with it and their contribution in smart manufacturing technology. Also, to realize this rapidly growing technology and cover its all dimensions a survey of the latest developments in this field and its impacts were analyzed and presented along with the challenges of implementation, opportunities and the future directions for smart manufacturing system.

Keywords

• Industry 4.0
• Smart manufacturing
• Cyber-physical system
• Internet of things
• Future industry