An assessment framework for smart manufacturing

This paper proposes an assessment framework for smart manufacturing in terms of the extent of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) adoption to manufacturing process. For an assessment framework, this paper establishes assessment principles and identifies activities of manufacturing process to be assessed. In addition, maturity levels of smart manufacturing are defined in this paper. Each level has different characteristics and different extent of ICT adoption in manufacturing process. Based on an assessment reference model, this paper gives a way of creating assessment indicators for each activities per each maturity levels. With answers to questionnaires/indicators, smart manufacturing can be assessed and expressed as a maturity level.