ABSTRACT
The implementation of cybermanufacturing technologies requires building advanced networks for connecting different elements of the physical and cyber domains. In a cybermanufacturing system, each facility establishes a local network to interconnect processes and plant-specific/field devices within the same geographical location, typically in a mesh, tree, or a star topology. The fundamental difference between traditional manufacturing systems and cybermanufacturing is that components and processes are well informed about their environment and can reconfigure, make predictions, and self-optimize based on cyber-physical system (CPS)/Internet of things (IoT)-enabled technologies in cybermanufacturing. Although cybermanufacturing technologies such as smart factories and cloud manufacturing are very promising in general, for each specific situation, an optimum combination of cloud computing and edge analytics needs to be carefully adopted to maximize the sought-after productivity benefits. Future CPS networks are expected to rely on the Internet for information exchange. Although the implementation of cybermanufacturing technologies in industry can lead to many major improvements, it is accompanied by some great challenges.
