The Smart City Production System

This chapter explores manufacturing in the smart city, and presents a framework that integrates distributed manufacturing with smart city technologies (such as big data and the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)). This framework aims to explore the interplay of smart city technology with production organization and design. The following are the interplay of smart city technologies with four production system characteristics: network design, manufacturing, distribution, and service. The chapter builds on the post‐Fordist and Toyota Production System (TPS) production system paradigms to focus on the development of the smart city production system. This is identified in the matrix and has been characterized by flexible and low scale production runs. There are low levels of inventory as the point of production is located close to consumption points and within city boundaries (local production).