Abstract:Through social computing, social manufacturing can transform traditional enterprises to intelligent enterprises that can actively sense and respond to customers’ individualized needs in massive scale. The key to the success of the social manufacturing is to integrate effectively social demands and production capacity in real time. To this end, it is imperative to combine the two emerging fields of social computing and social manufacturing, and to connect seamlessly Internet and logistic networks with 3D printing based manufacturing networks, so that customers can participate fully in the whole life cycle of production processes through crowdsourcing, eventually leading to an industrial revolution and new lifestyle in cyber-physical-social space.