Smart manufacturing refers to an advanced mode of manufacturing, which incorporates
computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) and artificial intelligence (AI) for data-enabled …

Advanced analytics applications in smart manufacturing provide manufacturers with benefits
in areas such as product design, production processes, maintenance, service, and recovery …

In this paper, we address the most pressing challenges faced by the manufacturing sector,
particularly the manufacturing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where the …

On the road to smart factories, industrial digitization, automation, and flexible production play
a key role when it comes to fulfilling customer demands. In terms of customization and wide …

The recent increase in computational capability has led to an unprecedented increase in the
range of new applications where machine learning can be used in real time …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines are a highly flexible manufacturing capability
capable of producing a wide range of products. One feature that enables this is the ability to …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have long been envisioned as a key enabling technology in
manufacturing, but this promise is yet to be realized: the lack of proper models, architectures …

Abstract “AI Enhanced Intelligence” in the context of control systems is a term associated
with injecting Artificial Intelligence into shopfloor systems that incorporate PLC, Robotics or …

The transition from traditional production activities to a manufacturing-dominated economy
has been a hallmark of industrial evolution, culminating in the advent of the fourth industrial …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) and more specifically reconfigurable
manufacturing automation systems (RMAS) represent an industrial production paradigm that …