Cyber-Physical Systems for Micro-/Nano-assembly Operations: a Survey

Purpose of Review: Latest requirements of the global market force manufacturing systems to a change for a new productionparadigm (Industry 4.0). Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) appear as a solution to be deployed in different manufacturing fields,especially those with high added value and technological complexity, high product variants, and short time to market. In thissense, this paper aims at reviewing the introduction level of CPS technologies in micro/nano-manufacturing and how thesetechnologies could cope with these challenging manufacturing requirements.Recent Findings: The introduction of CPS is still in its infancy on many industrial applications, but it actually demonstrates itspotential to support future manufacturing paradigm. However, only few research works in micro/nano-manufacturing consideredCPS frameworks, since the concept barely appeared a decade ago.Summary: Some contributions have revealed the potential of CPS technologies to improve manufacturing performance whichmay be scaled to the micro/nano-manufacturing. IoT-based frameworks with VR/AR technologies allow distributed and collaborativesystems, or agent-based architectures with advance algorithm implementations that improve the flexibility and performanceof micro-/nano-assembly operations. Future research of CPS in micro-/nano-assembly operations should be followed bymore studies of its technical deployment showing its implications under other perspectives, i.e. sustainable, economic, and socialpoint of views, to take full advance of all its features.