Benefits, Challenges and Practical Concerns of IoT for Smart Manufacturing

초록

IoT has helped many domains of industries in the effective purchase of raw materials down to the support and services rendered to their customers. The industrial revolution of 4.0 has IoT as its key player technologically, with the prospective feature of building influential services and application for manufacturing. In addition, deployment of IoT enables communication through the collection and transmission of data between smart machines which is important for complex systems in making decision in a real-time environment. This review paper presents the benefits of IoT in achieving seamless manufacturing operations. Furthermore, concise discussion on challenges, associated practical concerns as well as future direction is provided.