Advanced\/Smart Manufacturing: From Nanoscale to Megascale

In continuation of our efforts to bring you thematic issues centered around interesting and hot topics, this issue of IEEE Potentials focuses on advanced and smart manufacturing technologies. Increasingly, industry segments are facing the challenge to decrease the manufacturing cost per unit of a product. A number of different measures have been adopted by companies including moving factories to places with lower labor costs, improving production processes and manufacturing technologies, and designing better products.