In the context of Industry 4.0, man

In the context of Industry 4.0, manufacturing systems are updated to an intelligent level. Intelligent manufacturing takes advantage of advanced information and manufacturing technologies to achieve flexible, smart, and reconfigurable manufacturing processes in order to address a dynamic and global market [4]. It enables all physical processes and information flows to be available when and where they are needed across holistic manufacturing supply chains, multiple industries, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and large companies [5], [6]. Intelligent manufacturing requires certain underpinning technologies in order to enable devices or machines to vary their behaviors in response to different situations and requirements based on past experiences and learning capacities [7]. These technologies enable direct communication with manufacturing systems, thereby allowing problems to be solved and adaptive decisions to be made in a timely fashion. Some technologies also have artificial intelligence (AI), which allows manufacturing systems to learn from experiences in order to ultimately realize a connected, intelligent, and ubiquitous industrial practice.