Smart Manufacturing Standardization: Reference Model and Standards Framework

With the progress of world trade and globalization, and the development of information & communication technology (ICT) and industrial technology, manufacturing pattern and technology are now facing a turning point. In order to realize economic transformation, the Chinese government published China Manufacturing 2025 national strategy; German government published Industry 4.0; and American government proposed Re-industrialization and Industrial Internet. All of these mentioned strategies have a key topic: smart manufacturing. In order to present a systematic standard solution for smart manufacturing, standardization organizations of China, Germany and US published standards landscapes or roadmaps. This paper compares these smart manufacturing standardization architectures and methodology, develops a reference model for smart manufacturing standards development and implementation. At the end of the paper, a standards framework is presented.