
Smart Manufacturing and the Problem of Legacy Planning Process Models
Smart or advanced manufacturing is getting a lot of attention for the last few years. Obviously nine manufacturing innovation institutes have already been established and six more are planned by the end of 2017. There are many related other important concepts such as Industrie 4.0 and industrial internet which cause a little bit of confusion because many of these terms refer to very similar concepts. There is also an intense competition between the U.S. and the E.U. and as ar