Abstract
Smart Manufacturing (SM) uses the integration of next generation Operations Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) to realize significant untapped market opportunities. Opportunities accrue from a broader, more customized product space and accelerated dynamic, and precision manufacturing, drawing upon the cumulative impacts of every step across entire enterprise value and supply chains. Significantly increased energy, material and workforce productivity and improved environment sustainability are pathways to opportunities as well as outcomes of enterprise optimization. This paper returns smart manufacturing (SM) as a term of “practice” to its roots, revisiting it as a forward looking term about next-generation operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) integration based on the manufacturing objectives that originally defined it. Building meaning through a lens of practices that orchestrate capabilities to achieve business and operational objectives makes it possible to describe SM itself as set of practices that distinguish it from today's 40-year history of applying IT to manufacturing. Key practices at SM's core are centered on: business and technology; seams and an OT/IT journey; OT/IT enterprise workflow modeling; cyberinfrastructure and reference architecture; and workforce, innovation, and marketplace.
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