The Eastasouth Management and Business
Vol. 3 No. 02 (2025): The Eastasouth Management and Business (ESMB)

Semantic AI-Orchestrated Cross-Domain Automation Framework for Sustainable Smart Factories

Milan Bharatkumar Makwana (Canton, USA)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jan 2025

Abstract

Manufacturing sectors pursuing Industry 5.0 objectives increasingly require automation architectures capable of reasoning across heterogeneous cyber-physical domains while advancing sustainability targets. This paper synthesizes evidence from eighteen references spanning semantic web technologies, cyber-physical systems, digital twins, blockchain-enabled traceability, and multi-agent reinforcement learning to propose a Semantic AI-Orchestrated Cross-Domain Automation Framework for sustainable smart factories. The framework integrates a five-layer architecture, comprising physical sensing, cyber-physical integration, semantic reasoning, cross-domain orchestration, and sustainability decision layers, into a unified reasoning pipeline in which ontology-driven knowledge graphs mediate interoperability among heterogeneous equipment, enterprise systems, and human operators. Comparative synthesis indicates that semantic-based autonomous computing architectures reduce unplanned downtime by as much as 37 percent, while multi-agent reinforcement learning scheduling raises resource utilization to 88 percent relative to 58 percent under conventional rule-based scheduling. Interoperability standards such as OPC-UA demonstrate adoption rates near 78 percent among reviewed implementations, and hybrid semantic-blockchain ledgers achieve transaction throughput exceeding 2,100 transactions per second at latencies below 40 seconds, outperforming public proof-of-work ledgers by more than two orders of magnitude. Digital twin adoption trajectories synthesized from the references rose from approximately 8 percent in 2016 to 66 percent by 2024, correlating with a 24 percent reduction in energy consumption and a 31 percent reduction in material waste across reviewed sustainable manufacturing cases. The findings imply that semantic orchestration, combined with decentralized ledgers and human-centric digital twins, offers a scalable pathway toward resilient, low-carbon, and economically viable smart factory operations, while highlighting persistent challenges in ontology standardization, explainability, and cross-organizational governance.

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esmb

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Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management

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ESMB - The Eastasouth Management and Business is a peer-reviewed journal and open access three times a year (March, July and November) published by Eastasouth Institute. ESMB aims to publish articles in the field of Strategic management, Operations management, Marketing and Sales, Supply chain and ...