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© 2022 by the authors.Smart manufacturing is a vision and major driver for change in today’s industry. The goal of smart manufacturing is to optimize manufacturing processes through constantly monitoring, controlling, 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 communication protocols and their performance to meet application requirements. Particularly, wireless communication is becoming an integral part of modern smart manufacturing and is expected to play an important role in achieving the goals of smart manufacturing. This paper presents an extensive review of wireless 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 in wireless communication technologies for smart manufacturing.
Author(s): Noor-A-Rahim M, John J, Firyaguna F, Sherazi HHR, Kushch S, Vijayan A, O'Connell E, Pesch D, O'Flynn B, O'Brien W, Hayes M, Armstrong E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Sensors
Year: 2023
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Print publication date: 01/01/2023
Online publication date: 21/12/2022
Acceptance date: 12/12/2022
Date deposited: 23/05/2024
ISSN (electronic): 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010073
DOI: 10.3390/s23010073
Data Access Statement: Not applicable.
PubMed id: 36616671
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