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Smart Manufacturing is a broad category of idealized manufacturing optimized for agile and efficient concept generation, production, and product transaction. While manufacturing can be defined as the multiphase process of creating a product out of raw materials, smart manufacturing is a subset that employs computer control and high levels of adaptability. The goal is to generate new products, as well as optimize and reshape them, in a rapidly changing market. Smart manufacturing takes advantage of advanced information and manufacturing technologies to enable flexibility in physical processes to address a dynamic and global market. Necessarily, the workforce involved needs to be trained for such flexibility and use of the technology rather than specific tasks as is customary in traditional manufacturing.[3]