Artificial Intelligence in Smart Manufacturing: A Systematic Review on Applications, Future Trends, and Challenges

Manufacturing industries profoundly impact the economic progress of any society or country. They hold a Key Asset to our future developments. Our next generation of Industry 4.0, holds the promise of increased flexibility in manufacturing, along with mass customization, better quality, and improved productivity. Smart manufacturing is an emerging form of production and investing in new technological concepts of cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. These advances are rapidly enabling a new generation of smart manufacturing. This systematic review will help to identify how smart manufacturing research is contributing to the development of Industry 4.0 and for a broader perspective about the links between the Cyber-physical systems, Industry 4.0, and Smart manufacturing.