Framework and modelling of inclusive manufacturing system

Abstract

The world has seen tremendous changes in manufacturing, since its first industrial revolution to the current era of Industry 4.0. In the past few years, numerous advanced manufacturing models have been introduced by researchers and the same was implemented by companies. Similarly, in this domain, a new concept of inclusive manufacturing (IM) has been coined by Inclusive Manufacturing Forum for inclusive growth of manufacturing sector. In this work, a conceptual model of inclusive manufacturing system (IMS) is proposed along with a framework and flow chart. The IM is a composition of various policies and standards for resolving societal issues, environmental degradation and economic difficulties along with the integration of advanced manufacturing models and emerging technologies, like information and communication technologies, cyber-physical system, Internet of Things and Semantic Web. The vision of the proposed concept is to achieve the target of minimum time to market, high quality, low cost, better service, clean environment, flexible and precise information sharing. In this work, IMS has been conceptualised, along with visualisation of its practical implication by considering numerous emerging and supportive technologies, for achieving the goal of better collaboration among micro, small and medium enterprises.