Multi-agent-based manufacturing (MABM) is a cutting-edge system that harnesses
autonomous agents to boost modern production processes. By combining decentralization …

The advent of Industry 4.0 and the development of future industrial applications can be
achieved using Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This technological development invokes …

Since the 1980s society has been largely satisfied with modern manufacturing's production
practice. We are able to develop supply chains that can produce today's highly complex and …

Manufacturing has faced significant changes during the last years, namely the move from a
local economy towards a global and competitive economy, with markets demanding for …

The manufacturing industry will continue to be in the future one of the main wealth
generators of the world economy (CMV, 1998). In the last decades world has moved towards …

Mass personalization is arriving. It requires smart manufacturing capabilities to responsively
produce personalized products with dynamic batch sizes in a cost-effective way. However …

Revolutionary and latest technologies have changed the manufacturing sector. Emerging
technologies have developed smart and intelligent manufacturing systems. Latest …

Volatility and uncertainty of today's value chains along with the market's demands for low-
batch customized products mandate production systems to become smarter and more …

Collaborative Manufacturing is a new paradigm for the twenty-first century manufacturing. It
can be viewed as an evolution of the Distributed Manufacturing concept, where designated …

Today's manufacturing systems are often too inflexible and not sufficiently adaptable to
rapidly changing environments with unpredictable and abrupt fluctuation in product …