title: Smart Manufacturing.
abstract: Historic manufacturing enterprises based on vertically optimized companies, practices, market share, and competitiveness are giving way to enterprises that are responsive across an entire value chain to demand dynamic markets and customized product value adds; increased expectations for environmental sustainability, reduced energy usage, and zero incidents; and faster technology and product adoption. Agile innovation and manufacturing combined with radically increased productivity become engines for competitiveness and reinvestment, not simply for decreased cost. A focus on agility, productivity, energy, and environmental sustainability produces opportunities that are far beyond reducing market volatility. Agility directly impacts innovation, time-to-market, and faster, broader exploration of the trade space. These changes, the forces driving them, and new network-based information technologies offering unprecedented insights and analysis are motivating the advent of smart manufacturing and new information technology infrastructure for manufacturing.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Digital Research and Education, Office of Information Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095; email: jdavis@oit.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Edgar
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Graybill
authors.forename: Prakashan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Korambath
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schott
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Swink
authors.forename: Jianwu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wetzel
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000191:economics; D004777:Environment; D019649:Food Industry / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D066192:Manufacturing Industry / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
keywords: advanced manufacturing; advanced sensing; control and platforms; digital manufacturing; smart manufacturing