Smart manufacturing is arriving. It promises a future of mass-producing highly personalized
products via responsive autonomous manufacturing operations at a competitive cost. Of …

Industry 4.0 concepts and technologies ensure the ongoing development of micro-and
macro-economic entities by focusing on the principles of interconnectivity, digitalization, and …

New achievements in information and communication technologies (ICT) are drastically
influencing several industrial sectors. The provision of connectivity, networked entities, real …

Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

Industry 4.0 architecture has been studied in a large number of publications in the fields of
Industrial Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Production Systems, Enterprise Architectures …

Factories use many manufacturing processes that consume a lot of energy and highly
contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The introduction of the concept of Industrial Internet …

Industrial process plants have a lifecycle of several decades, and only some of the most
modern plants have digital, machine-readable design information available. For all other …

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a short-range optical wireless communication
technology that has been gaining attention due to its potential to offload heavy data traffic …

Abstract In an Industry 4.0 environment, the data generated by sensors networks requires
machine learning and data analysis techniques. Thus, organizations face both new …

Aspirations toward technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet,
an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfil …