Under the emerging social manufacturing context

a personalized product production-oriented cyber-physical- social interconnected social factory combined with cyber-physical systems and social networks is proposed. The definition of relevant terms is clarified

the architecture and operation logic of social factory are presented

based on which the key enabling technologies are discussed. Feasibility and efficiency of the proposed social factory is verified through a case study. The social factory theory makes a further step to reveal the organization form

configuration mechanism

and operation logic of social manufacturing from network nodes perspective

and provides a novel insight for the building of future factory.