Smart manufacturing is a vision and major driver for change in industrial environments. The goal of smart manufacturing is to optimize manufacturing processes through constantly monitoring and adapting processes towards more efficient and personalised manufacturing. This requires and relies on technologies for connected machines incorporating a variety of computation, sensing, actuation, and machine to machine communications modalities. As such, understanding the change towards smart manufacturing requires knowledge of the enabling technologies, their applications in real world scenarios and the communications protocols that they rely on. This paper presents an extensive review of wireless machine to machine communication protocols currently applied in manufacturing environments and provides a comprehensive review of the associated use cases whilst defining their expected impact on the future of smart manufacturing. Based on the review, we point out a number of open challenges and directions for future research.
翻译:智能制造业是工业环境变革的愿景和主要驱动力。智能制造业的目标是通过不断监测和调整流程,优化制造过程,使之更有效率和个性化的制造业。这要求并依靠连接机器的技术,包括各种计算、感测、激活和机器到机器通信模式。因此,了解向智能制造业的转变需要了解赋能技术及其在现实世界情景中的应用以及它们所依赖的通信协议。本文件对目前适用于制造环境的无线机器对机器通信协议的全面审查,并对相关使用案例进行全面审查,同时界定其对智能制造业未来的预期影响。根据审查,我们指出未来研究的一些公开的挑战和方向。