Smart Manufacturing is the dramatic

Smart Manufacturing is the dramatically intensified and pervasive application of networked informationbased
technologies throughout the manufacturing and supply chain enterprise. The defining technical
threads are time, synchronization, integrated performance metrics and cyber-physical–workforce
requirements. Smart Manufacturing responds and leads to a dramatic and fundamental business transformation
to demand-dynamic economics keyed on customers, partners and the public; enterprise
performance and variability management; real-time integrated computational materials engineering
and rapid qualification, demand-driven supply chain services; and broad-based workforce involvement.
IT-enabled Smart factories and supply networks can better respond to national interests and strategic
imperatives and can revitalize the industrial sector by facilitating global competitiveness and exports,
providing sustainable jobs, radically improving performance, and facilitating manufacturing innovation.