Manufacturing cyber-physical systems enabled by complex event processing and big data environments: A framework for development

Abstract

The decades old manufacturing operations question of choosing the right answer in the face of disturbances created by certain unexpected events, or by their aggregation, could now be one step further to receive the right answer. A sensor-packed manufacturing system in which each process or piece of equipment makes available event and status information, coupled with market research for true advanced Big Data analytics, seem to be the right ingredients for event response selection, and thus moving manufacturing closer to the cloud manufacturing systems paradigm. Besides the inherent obvious advantages that come with the cloud manufacturing capabilities, the resulting manufacturing cyber-physical system will be also subjected to the known setbacks of the software and Internet-based systems, from which cyber-security needs to be addressed at the forefront.