Internet of Things in Manufacturing: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Manufacturing industry is currently putting resources into new innovations, such as, the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, distributed computing, and network protection to adapt to its multifaceted nature, increment in data, improving performance, and increase competitive advantage in business. Understanding the capacity of digital frameworks relies on the improvement of new strategies on the Internet of Manufacturing Things for information empowered advancements in engineering. Also in the field of manufacturing, supply chain optimization and adoption of new technologies has seen significant importance across the globe so as the big data and internet of things also. The emergent field of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been evolving rapidly and so are the publications in this field. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the literature on IoT advances and frameworks that are the drivers and establishments of information driven developments in smart manufacturing. The paper reviewed the articles published on IoT from 2013 to 2020 from the Web of Science database. This study distinguishes top contributing authors; key exploration themes identified with the field; the most compelling works dependent based on citations and PageRank; and set up and rising research clusters,most contributing affiliations, top themes in the research, geographical references with respect to authors and other key parameters.The study proposes a group characterization of research topics that may illuminate momentum and future exploration in IoT and areas for further research in the field of industrial applications of IoT.