Latest advancements in manufacturing systems at NAMRC 45

Latest manufacturing technologies are more prevalent thanbefore due to recent industrial revolution (or Industry 4.0), continu-ous business decentralization and needs for better overall resourceefficiency and effectiveness. Manufacturers are competing in aglobal, dynamic marketplace that demands excellence in qual-ity and service, throughput, innovativeness, agility in production,short response time to changing markets, and tight profitable mar-gins. In the 21 st century, manufacturing will be gradually pushedtowards a distributed environment with increasing dynamism oruncertainty. It is envisioned that Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS),Cloud Manufacturing, Internet of Things, and Big Data Analyticswill change the way of today’s manufacturing systems. In order towin a competition, locally or globally, smartness in manufacturingsystems is treated with priority. This leads to process digitalization,CPS integration and smart control on factory shop floors.