From IoT-based cloud manufacturing approach to intelligent additive manufacturing: industrial Internet of Things—an overview.

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has grown to empower advantages of advanced manufacturing machinery and smarter control. The cloud-based technology of remote data collection, intelligent machine interconnectivity, and sensor monitoring provide the opportunity for a pattern modification across all manufacturing divisions including the latest and rapidly growing technology of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing. AM is a type of direct manufacturing and revolutionary technology that enables complicated production and a formation which can shorten manufacturing processes and supply chain procedures. Data is a key factor in the age of big data, embedded IIoT solutions, and services in the new machinery and mechanism that bring an additional capability to integrate and manage data streams within the Internet of Things (IoT) cloud-based platform. Movement and merging conventional (legacy) manufacturing technology into the shared and modern machinery required for the state-of-the-art manufacturing technology such as AM is complex and challenging, but it needs to be organized and fixed resourcefully, while it remains linked, flexible, and scalable. AM is an advanced manufacturing system and technology involving the new era of complex machinery and operating systems. AM has been identified as a special value to the industry which has many applications in the different industries such as aerospace, medical and healthcare, energy, and automotive. Hence, high-performance computation and processing will be very important in AM. This research takes an overview of the cloud-based model and concept of cloud computing (CC), cloud manufacturing (CM), IoT, and their relations and influences in the AM industry 4.0 era. This study contributes as a theoretical basis and as a comprehensive framework for AM integration. Furthermore, this paper presents CM applications and integration with AM and proposes an integrated AM cloud platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]