Cyber Physical System (CPS) is a very crucial and promising technology in Industry 4.0 context. The application of CPS in the production and manufacturing environment gave rise to the term Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPSs). CPPSs hold great potential to make production systems become intelligent, resilient and self-adaptive by utilizing the cyber world to realize the distributed collaboration in the physical world. There is growing interest in CPPSs, yet there is a scarcity of review to document the current status of CPPSs. This review aims to classify the current research activities within CPPSs field with a special focus on design and implementation approaches in view of industrial engineering and to analyze research gaps based on the literature review. Findings of this review can be used as the basis for future research in CPPSs and related topics.