Smart Manufacturing and Intelligent Manufacturing: A Comparative Review

The application of intelligence to manufacturing has emerged as a compelling topic for researchers and industries around the world. However, different terminologies, namely smart manufacturing (SM) and intelligent manufacturing (IM), have been applied to what may be broadly characterized as a similar paradigm by some researchers and practitioners. While SM and IM are similar, they are not identical. From an evolutionary perspective, there has been little consideration on whether the definition, thought, connotation, and technical development of the concepts of SM or IM are consistent in the literature. To address this gap, the work performs a qualitative and quantitative investigation of research literature to…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 51703180
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2017M610634
• SP
  Shaanxi Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

  Award: xjj2017024