Smart Manufacturing: A Review Toward the Improvement of Supply Chain Efficiency, Productivity, and Sustainability

Abstract

Smart manufacturing is an innovative approach to creating a more agile supply chain process capable of adapting to changing market demands and conditions to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. These technologies successfully optimize their factories to decrease material waste, save money on equipment, supplies, and upkeep, and boost supply chain performance. Owing to these facts, this study reviewed how smart manufacturing systems make a revolution by monitoring and tracking production processes in real-time, providing manufacturers with valuable data that improved and optimized operations and reduced downtime, waste, and energy usage. This study aims to examine the existing research on the effects of smart manufacturing on developing the supply chain and to pinpoint the significant developments, problems, and possibilities in these fields. This systematic review covered how these areas' latest research and developments relinquish manual operations and embrace automation and smart technologies for supply chain transformation. The study included a comprehensive search of relevant databases following the PRISMA guidelines for reporting systematic reviews. The review critically investigated data management, privacy, security problems, and the possibilities and obstacles related to deploying these technologies in the real world. In advance, this study reappraised that smart manufacturing allows manufacturers to manage their supply chains better, reducing the time and resources required to coordinate and manage suppliers, logistics, and inventory. At long last, these reviewed data and insights will aid decision-making to reduce waste, improve productivity, and increase overall profitability in the supply chain literature.