Current and future of software services in smart manufacturing

There Is a Future: Smart Manufacturing

When we first decided that smart manufacturing would be the focus of this issue of B/HERT News, the recent spate of restructuring announcements by iconic names in manufacturing such as Ford, Toyota, GMH, Boeing, Shell and Alcoa had not announced their decisions regarding their futures in Australia. Whilst such decisions do have major implications for the workforces, communities and regions affe...

Smart Manufacturing Systems based on Cyber-physical Manufacturing Services (CPMS)

Future manufacturing is becoming “smart” – capable of agilely adapting to a wide variety of changing conditions. This requires production plants, supply chains and logistic systems to be flexible in design and reconfigurable “on the fly” to respond quickly to customer needs, production uncertainties, and market changes. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a promising platform to achiev...

Planning for Future Urban Services in the Smart City Era: Integrating E-services in Urban Planning Process

Information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed how we live our lives and the way we interact in different contexts. Benefits of ICT and its upcoming efficiencies (i.e. energy efficiency) are becoming the heart of many public services’ reforms which have influenced the time, distance and space concepts. At present, not only there is a lack of clarity about what high-quality ICTba...

Layered Manufacturing: Current Status and Future Trends

This paper reviews the emerging field of layered manufacturing. This field is little over 10 years old but a significant amount of research has been conducted and results to date are quite promising. We consider three broad topics namely, design systems for heterogeneous objects, layered manufacturing processes, and process planning techniques. Several applications/examples are included in the ...

Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems