Digitalization of Production & Supply chain systems from XaaS to a Web 3 paradigm

Abstract

The paradigm of Cloud production and manufacturing system can be considered as one of the most dominant enablers of Industry 4.0 paradigm. The emphasize of this paradigm for realization of service-oriented production and manufacturing systems has established new perspectives for manufacturing business models toward globalized and distributed orientations. This paper has reviewed research studies conducted through 2014-2022 regarding the elaboration of Cloud production and manufacturing system concepts. Considering the proposed roadmap of the research, four main themes have been considered for clustering the research studies. First theme, the research studies which have contributed to platforms and architectures for globalized service-oriented production and manufacturing systems. Second theme, the research studies which elaborated the idea of Cloud production and manufacturing systems by encompassing the transportation and logistics as service paradigm. The third theme, the research studies that contributed to development of operations research models for Cloud service network management and planning. Last theme, the research studies that extended and contributed the application of Blockchain and emerging Web 3 technologies in Cloud manufacturing networks. The studies emphasize the potential and capabilities of Web 3 for establishment of new business models in this network. The convergence of the themes in this research concentrates on more realization of service-oriented production and supply networks. The globalized interaction frameworks which operate with autonomous structures capable of resembling the preferences of Cloud stakeholders. From point view of sustainability pillars high research potentials can be of investigated. Moreover, the paper proposes the future studies with motivation of more globalized, sustainable, and autonomous Cloud networks in form of tokenization paradigm.