Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) encompasses a plethora of digital technologies effecting on
manufacturing enterprises. Most research on this topic examines the effects in the smart …

Abstract In recent years, Digital Twins (DT) have been implemented in different industrial
sectors, in several applications areas such as design, production, manufacturing, and …

Nowadays, Industry 4.0 can be considered a reality, a paradigm integrating modern
technologies and innovations. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered the leading …

Digital twin creates the virtual model of physical entity in digital way, promotes the interaction
and integration of physical world and information world, and builds a reliable bridge for …

The Industry 4.0 literature has exponentially grown in the past decade. We aim to
understand how this literature has evolved and propose future research opportunities. We …

Manufacturing industries are currently experiencing the fourth industrial revolution with the
rapid advancements in immersive technologies for human–machine interaction (HMI) and …

Collaborative robots are increasingly common in modern production systems, since they
allow to merge the productivity of automated systems with the flexibility and dexterity of …

In recent years, the multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, and multi-level applications of
augmented reality/mixed reality have attracted more and more attention from researchers in …

Humans are all makers of a sort. The tools we operate constantly leverage our human
capabilities and evolve over history to take advantage of any innovation or a new source of …

In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …