Introduction to resilient manufacturing systems

Recent COVID pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of modern manufacturing systems to endure disruptive changes. In response to the distress caused by disruptions, there is a pressing need to improve manufacturing resilience by embracing automation, digitization, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This paper re-conceptualizes manufacturing resilience from the perspectives of system agility, robustness, and survivability to explain how industrial AI can be leveraged to improve manufacturing resilience. In addition, a unified framework to design resilient manufacturing systems is discussed.