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Review
. 2022 Aug 16;22(16):6114.
doi: 10.3390/s22166114.

Smart Manufacturing and Digitalization of Metrology: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda

Carlos Roberto H Barbosa  1 , Manuel C Sousa  1 , Maria Fatima L Almeida  1 , Rodrigo F Calili  1
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Smart Manufacturing and Digitalization of Metrology: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda

Carlos Roberto H Barbosa et al. Sensors (Basel). .

Abstract

Smart manufacturing comprises fully integrated manufacturing systems that respond in real time to meet the changing demands and conditions in industrial activities, supply networks and customer needs. A smart manufacturing environment will face new challenges, including those concerning metrological issues, i.e., analysis of large quantities of data; communication systems for digitalization; measurement standards for automated process control; digital transformation of metrological services; and simulations and virtual measurement processes for the automatic assessment of measured data. Based on the assumption that the interplay between smart manufacturing and digitalization of metrology is an emerging research field, this paper aims to present a systematic literature review (SLR) based on a bibliographic data collection of 160 scientific articles retrieved from the Web of Science and Scopus databases over the 2016-2022 time frame. The findings presented in this review and recommendations for building a research agenda can help policy makers, researchers and practitioners by providing directions for the evolution of digital metrology and its role in the digitalization of the economy and society.

Keywords: digitalization of metrology; metrological services; smart manufacturing; systematic literature review.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The literature review process’ schematic representation adapted from Ref. [26].
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Evolution of the scientific production covering the bibliographic data collection: cumulative data from 2016 to 2022.
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