A comprehensive review of Digital Manufacturing

Abstract

Reconfigurability is an important feature of modern manufacturing system as it make smooth for the seamless introduction of new products to manufacture and the -adaption to demand of capricious society. Digital manufacturing has been considered as a highly promising part of technology for reducing product cost, development times as well as it is directing us towards the increased product quality, need of customization and faster response to the market. This review paper highlights the emergence of digital manufacturing and significant role played by information technology systems in production sector. With the Digital manufacturing and factory concept we were discussing technologies in this paper which are like computer- aided design, process planning, engineering product data management, product lifecycle management, manufacturing planning, simulation and virtual reality, process control, automation, design support, shop floor scheduling, decision making, manufacturing resources planning, logistics, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and e-commerce system. These are the technologies discussed in the context of digital manufacturing.