This Recommendation provides an overview of smart manufacturing in the context of the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT). The Recommendation introduces at first smart manufacturing and IIoT, including the smart manufacturing capabilities with respect to the Internet of things (IoT) reference model [ITU-T Y.4000]. Then, with respect to smart manufacturing in the context of the IIoT, it identifies fundamental system characteristics and high-level requirements, specifies a reference model and provides some use cases.

This text was wrongly associated with number Y.4001. It has been finally associated with number Y.4003.