Recent Technological Progress to Empower Smart Manufacturing: Review and Potential Guidelines

With growing evidence of advanced technologies-assisted smart processes, it is fundamental to comprehend whether manufacturing systems are adequate to manage flexibility and complexity to enhance the monitoring of smart factories. Smart manufacturing (SM) is evolving as a new version of traditional manufacturing, revealing the magnitude and power of smart technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). The wide applicability of these technologies is allowing important innovations across all industries. As the manufacturing industry has gained benefits, the current boosts of Smart Manufacturing are experiencing exceptional levels of interest. However, providing suitable SM systems and identifying the priority of requirements may vary according to different scenarios. To this end, this study presents a systematic survey of the current SM research trends. Furthermore, this paper aims to present a consistent and comprehensive vision of existing efforts in smart manufacturing and discussed the remaining open issues.