Manufacturers are on a digital transformation journey toward the smart factory. Smart manufacturing is a flexible system that can self-optimize performance across a network, self-adapt to and learn from new conditions in real time, and autonomously run production processes.

The smart factory represents a leap forward from more traditional automation to a fully connected and flexible system—one that can use a constant stream of data from connected operations and production systems to learn and adapt to new demands.

To fully realize the digital supply network, however, manufacturers likely need to      CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE