1 Smart Manufacturing

Hebab A. Quazi

DOI: 10.1201/9781003156970-1

1.1 Introduction

Smart Manufacturing needs to focus on business profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability. Most often, these are the results of imagination, creativity, and innovation. It involves product and market restructuring and adoption of transformative technologies utilizing manufacturing data intelligently. Digitized operational processes are the foundation of Smart Manufacturing. It demands competency-directed and profitability-focused operation.

Innovation is behind a lot of operational changes that are needed in the manufacturing industry. The manufactured products in the future most likely are the results of innovative efforts. The pressure will continue ...

Get Smart Manufacturing now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.