Smart Factories: Giving Form to Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry
CPS: A Key Technology for Realizing Autonomous Smart Factories
A cyber-physical system (CPS), which is the core information system of future factories aiming to be smart factories, is built by concentrating together IoT, AI, big data analysis, industrial networks, and other advanced information technologies. It is an information system occupying the core in the implementation of digital transformation (DX) in the manufacturing industry that draws a clear distinction with mere process automation by conventional factory automation (FA).