IEC TR 63283-5:2024

IEC TR 63283-5:2024 describes the market and innovation trend analysis affecting smart manufacturing (SM). The market and innovation trends will influence the evolution of smart manufacturing and it will be important to have good insights on these trends. Specific aspects of the market trends are the evolution of the business cases that is assumed to highlight new supplier chain models, new revenue streams, new customer services, and/or new customer segments. The document will address the following topics: • Market watch: Identify the important, likely, and/or disruptive market trends (e.g. mass customization) from an end-to-end perspective, which impact smart manufacturing topics/aspects. This includes the end-user, producers, supply chain, regulators, etc. • Business model watch: Identify the new business model trends from an end-to-end perspective, which impact smart manufacturing. • Technological watch: Identify the important, likely, and/or disruptive innovations (AI chipsets, 6G, quantum computing, etc.) describing the impacted smart manufacturing topics/aspects; this topic will focus on those technologies that are still under development but is assumed to influence (or is assumed to be influenced by) smart manufacturing. There are many more new trends which are used in SM. In this document, only some frequently discussed trends are presented. Some technologies are considered to have priority according to their maturity. This work will focus on how they can be used in SM.