Resiliency of Smart Manufacturing Enterprises via Information Integration

Smart Manufacturing enterprises emerge as interconnected, geographically distributed, data driven, and adap-tive. While smartness is improved by the integration of information, this also leads to complexity. In this paper, smart manufacturing enterprises are modeled as a complex adaptive system with resiliency as a property. Resiliency is indicated by the enterprises' ability to comprehensively understand risks and adapt to changes, and information integration plays an important role. A systematic literature review reveals that the current per-spectives on manufacturing resiliency are narrow as they are concentrated on isolated parts of the manufacturing process and do not account for enterprise-wide risks that are typical to a smart manufacturing enterprise. An expanded set of risk sources is important for resiliency and information integration has a key role to play in reducing these risks. The complex adaptive systems lens employed in the paper prescribes a five-part framework to organize key risk sources including: external environment, internal environment, manufacturing processes, technology; and demand-supply networks. Additionally, for each key risk source, the role of integrated infor-mation is discussed. Lastly, complexity of a single function (logistics) is described and the rational for a CAS view is provided.