Design and Implementation of the Prototype for Hybrid Production of Multi-Type Products

A smart manufacturing prototype called iCandy Box, used for hybrid packing of assorted candies, was designed to study and verify the cyber-physical control methods. The prototype is aimed to provide personalized consumption, as it can perform flexible and customized production. The prototype is powered by a cloud-edge-end enabled collaborative information framework, which can support both industrial big data and artificial intelligence applications. Furthermore, it is characterized by modularization and interdisciplinarity; therefore, it can be used to carry out both experiments and training in several major fields, including smart manufacturing and IoT. The experimental results have shown that the prototype can carry out hybrid production, paving the way for the study and verification of cyber-physical control methods.