Towards a cyber-physical-social-connected and service-oriented manufacturing paradigm: Social Manufacturing

Manufacturing industry is heading toward socialization, personalization, servitization and mass collaboration. Motivated by the infiltration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and social media usage in manufacturing industry, this paper addresses a new Social Manufacturing (SocialM) paradigm and provides a theoretical basis for future production organization. Definitions and organizational logic of SocialM are given. Three core aspects of SocialM are addressed from the configuration, operation and management perspectives. It is expected that SocialM would contribute to the production mode transformation and social innovation.