With the arrival of new technologies in modern smart factories, automated predictive
maintenance is also related to production robotisation. Intelligent sensors make it possible to …

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

The application of intelligence to manufacturing has emerged as a compelling topic for
researchers and industries around the world. However, different terminologies, namely …

Today's manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, and
connected. The factory operations face challenges of highly nonlinear and stochastic activity …

This paper provides a fundamental research review of Reconfigurable Manufacturing
Systems (RMS), which uniquely explores the state-of-the-art in distributed and decentralized …

The period of the fourth industrial revolution, called Industry 4.0, is characterized by new,
innovative technologies such as: Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things; the Industrial …

Manufacturers are increasingly aware of the importance of system resilience against
unexpected disruptive occurrences, such as the recent global Covid-19 pandemic and …

Currently, a large number of industrial robots have been deployed to replace or assist
humans to perform various repetitive and dangerous manufacturing tasks. However, based …

This paper summarizes a vision of the challenges facing the so-called “Industry of the
Future” as studied by the research community of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on …

The proliferation of cyber-physical systems introduces the fourth stage of industrialization,
commonly known as Industry 4.0. The vertical integration of various components inside a …