The document will address the following topics:
• Market watch: Identify the important, likely, and/or disruptive market trends (e.g. mass customization) from an end-to-end perspective, which impact smart manufacturing topics/aspects. This includes the end-user, producers, supply chain, regulators, etc.
• Business model watch: Identify the new business model trends from an end-to-end perspective, which impact smart manufacturing.
• Technological watch: Identify the important, likely, and/or disruptive innovations (AI chipsets, 6G, quantum computing, etc.) describing the impacted smart manufacturing topics/aspects; this topic will focus on those technologies that are still under development but is assumed to influence (or is assumed to be influenced by) smart manufacturing.
There are many more new trends which are used in SM. In this document, only some frequently discussed trends are presented. Some technologies are considered to have priority according to their maturity.
This work will focus on how they can be used in SM.
