Functional Requirements (FRs) of Digital Manufacturing

 Many companies suffer from data rich but information poor (DRIP) syndrome. So, DM need some
essential FRs to process data and ensure that the right data is delivered from the right source to the
right place at the right time.

The main functional requirements (FRs) of DM:

Data Availability,
Accessibility, and Information
Transparency

Sustainability Integration

High-Level
Resiliency Decision-Making
Supports

Reconfigurability,
Modularity, and Decentralization

Composability

Fig: Functional Requirements of DM 1

 Functional Requirements (FRs) of Digital Manufacturing

Data Availability, Accessibility, and Information Transparency

 Decision-making activities rely on reliable, sufficient, and prompt data.

 One of the primary goals of DM is the digitalization to ensure the right data is available where and
whenever it is needed.

Integration

DM must integrate all of the system components of an enterprise system:

 Enterprise architecture (EA),
 hardware and software

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 Functional Requirements (FRs) of Digital Manufacturing

High-Level Decision-Making Supports

 When a manufacturing system becomes more complicated, a hierarchical control architecture is

needed to decompose the system control into multiple layers and domains

Decentralization

 The processes for making parts, components, and finished products are performed in
different location

Reconfigurability, Modularity, and Composability

 Reconfigurability deals with unanticipated changes of the market needs by reconfiguring both
hardware and software resources in a system.
 The same set of manufacturing resources can be reconfigured to make different products
with a minimized changeover time.
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 Functional Requirements (FRs) of Digital Manufacturing

Resiliency

 Resiliency is the system ability to recover from an undesired state to its desired state.
 The DM should be able to assess the system vulnerability to unexpected disruptions.

Sustainability
 There is a potential of reducing manufacturing output or even shutting down company
operations
 Sustainable manufacturing must ensure that products or processes are compliant with
environmental standards, regulations, and guidelines

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 System Architecture

NIST Enterprise Architecture

 Defines an enterprise architecture

by the interrelationship between an
enterprise's business, information,
and technology environments

 All functional components are

separable, so the components at
a certain layer and domain are
specialized to manage,
contextualize, and generate data
for corresponding tasks
independently. Figure 1: NIST Enterprise Architecture
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 Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructure

 In the IoT infrastructure, embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware
(such as sensors), these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and can
be remotely monitored and controlled.

Figure: Internet of Things (IOT)

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