Digital manufacturing

A digital manufacturing system, comprising:

• at least one processor executing machine readable instructions stored on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium;
• a web portal to receive product configuration information;
• an enterprise resource planning subsystem to:
• generate a production order based on the product configuration information;
• and
• determine a manufacturing resource plan and production steps for manufacturing the product;
• a manufacturing execution subsystem to:
• generate an identifier for the manufacturing resource plan;
• and
• communicate the manufacturing resource plan and the production steps to a production control subsystem controlling machines performing the manufacturing of the product according to the manufacturing resource plan and the production steps,
• the production control subsystem storing the identifier in a near field communication chip attachable to the product during the manufacturing to provide real-time tracking of the manufacturing throughout the steps;
• and
• an empirical analysis subsystem comprising:
• feed adapters to each connect to a different social media application and retrieve a social media feed from the respective social media application;
• extractors to extract text from the social media feeds,
• the social media feeds including a text feed and a video feed;
• a text analyzer to:
• apply natural language processing to the extracted text,
• the natural language processing identifying a sentence from the extracted text containing a question and a sentence not containing a question;
• for the sentence determined to contain a question,
• determine an answer to the question from a repository, and
• post the answer to at least one of the social media feeds;
• and