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With the innovative advance in science and technology, manufacturing production methods have made considerable progress. However, before the production process is actually implemented, it is important to examine whether the design can meet the actual need. By applying cyber-physical system technology to test the production process, the development problems of the actual construction can be avoided. Based on the existing components, this study incorporated the cyber-physical system via innovative integration. In addition to the human–machine interface, this was employed as the operating spindle to integrate the material color identification system of the physical organization. This study also adopted the automated virtual factory constructed by the simulation software of Factory IO with an aim to achieve the technical application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, along with the wide application of new generation information technologies (New IT) in manufacturing, many countries issued their national advanced manufacturing development strategies, such as Industrial Internet, Industry 4.0, and Made in China 2025. One common aim of these strategies is to achieve smart manufacturing, which demands the interoperation, integration, and fusion of the physical world and the cyber world of manufacturing. As well, New IT [such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet, and cyber-physical systems (CPS)] have played pivotal roles in promoting smart manufacturing. Data generated in the physical world can be sensed and transfered to the cyber world through IoT and the Internet, and be processed and analyzed by cloud computing, big data technologies to adjust the physical world. The physical world and the cyber world of manufacturing are integrated based on CPS. On the other hand, servitization has become a prominent trend in the manufacturing. Embracing the concept of “Manufacturing-as-a-Service,” manufacturing is provided as service for users. Because of the characteristics of interoperability and platform independence, services pave the way for large-scale smart applications and manufacturing collaboration. Combining New IT and services, this paper proposes a framework—New IT driven service-oriented smart manufacturing (SoSM). SoSM aims at facilitating the visions of smart manufacturing by making full use of New IT and services. Complementary to the framework of SoSM, the New IT driven typical characteristics of SoSM are also investigated and discussed, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study on digital factory (DF) meets some problems, such as disconnected manufacturing sites, independent digital models, isolated data, and non-self-controlled applications. In order to move current situation of DFs forward towards smart manufacturing, this paper attempts to present an overview of current digital situation of factories, and propose a systematical framework of cyber-physical integration in factories, with consideration of the concept of digital twin and the theory of manufacturing service. Particularly, the proposed framework includes four key issues, i.e., (a) fully interconnected physical elements integration, (b) faithful-mirrored virtual models integration, (c) all of elements/flows/businesses-covered data fusion, and (d) data-driven and application-oriented services integration. The corresponding implementable solutions of these four key issues are discussed in turn. As a reference, this paper is promising to bridge the gap in factories from current digital situation to smart manufacturing, so as to effectively facilitate their smart production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]