  Industry 4.0 envisions Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) to foster
adaptive production of mass-customizable products. Manufacturing approaches
based on capabilities and skills aim to support this adaptability by
encapsulating machine functions and decoupling them from specific production
processes. At the 2022 IEEE conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory
Automation (ETFA), a special session on capability- and skill-based
manufacturing is hosted for the fourth time. However, an overview on
capability- and skill based systems in factory automation and manufacturing
systems is missing. This paper aims to provide such an overview and give
insights to this particular field of research. We conducted a concise
literature survey of papers covering the topics of capabilities and skills in
manufacturing from the last ten years of the ETFA conference. We found 247
papers with a notion on capabilities and skills and identified and analyzed 34
relevant papers which met this survey's inclusion criteria. In this paper, we
provide (i) an overview of the research field, (ii) an analysis of the
characteristics of capabilities and skills, and (iii) a discussion on gaps and
opportunities.
