Data-driven sustainable smart manufacturing: A conceptual framework

Abstract

The IoT technologies, big data analytics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence advances fundamentally impacted today’s manufacturing systems and increased the growth of data generated from manufacturing. Big data as a driver key of intelligent manufacturing empowered companies to adopt data driven approaches to enhance competitiveness, efficiency and sustainability. In this paper a historical evolution of data in manufacturing is overviewed, the smart manufacturing its key technologies and sustainability are related, and a conceptual framework from lifecycle product perspective was proposed to show potential applications of big data analytics in sustainable smart manufacturing.