Social manufacturing: A survey of the state-of-the-art and future challenges

Under the growing trend of personalization and socialization, social manufacturing is an emerging technical and business practice in mass individualization paradigm that allows prosumers to build personalized products and individualized services with their partners through integrating inter-organizational manufacturing service processes. This paper makes a comprehensive literature review and a further discussion on social manufacturing via a constructive methodology. After a clarification on definition of social manufacturing, we make an analysis on current research progress including the business models, implementations architectures and frameworks, case studies, and the key enabling techniques (e.g., big data mining and cyber-physical-social system) for realizing the idea of social manufacturing. The potential impact and future challenges are pointed out as well. It is expected that this review can help readers to gain more understanding on the idea of social manufacturing.