Smart Manufacturing Technology II

Dear Colleagues,

It is believed that digital transformation corresponds to the fourth industrial revolution, the one linked to the concept of Smart Manufacturing; that is, the total integration of information technology, data and physical systems or, using a neologism, the birth and adoption of cyber-physical systems.

Smart Manufacturing is a process where new technologies can be tested to improve productivity and business performances, such as the Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing, Advanced Automation, wearable devices and Additive Manufacturing (3D printing). These new technologies help to achieve optimization by guaranteeing new levels of performance and efficiency to each staff through a gradual renewal process.

Smart Manufacturing is characterized by the integration of 3 factors: productivity automation, operational information, and advanced analyses. The main ideas behind Smart Manufacturing are that each element of the production chain is connected thanks to the contribution of sensors, measurement and monitoring instruments, and RFID chips, and that intelligent control systems allow to optimize the specific phase of the process, known as “decentralization of control”.

This Special Issue is mainly focused on the latest advances made in the interconnection and cooperation between people, machinery, and information, and in manufacturing processes, manufacturing equipment, manufacturing systems and techniques, machine tools, and enabling technologies. This Special Issue continues on from the success of the first edition, which received considerable interest from various researchers in the field.

Dr. Michele Calì
Guest Editor

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