In recent years, a step change has been seen in the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0
technologies by manufacturers and industrial organizations alike. This article discusses the …

Abstract Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems have benefitted substantially from the
introduction of a range of technology enablers. These include web-based and semantic …

Due to widespread automation and the high capital tied up in production equipment, the
importance of maintenance is ever increasing. This makes maintenance an investment …

The changing nature of manufacturing, in recent years, is evident in industry's willingness to
adopt network-connected intelligent machines in their factory development plans. A number …

The future factory empowers managers with new capabilities and enables the realization of
sophisticated approaches based on the collaboration of devices, network services within the …

The adoption of the Circular Economy paradigm by industry leads to increased responsibility
of manufacturing to ensure a holistic awareness of the environmental impact of its …

The adoption of the Circular Economy paradigm by industry leads to increased responsibility
of manufacturing to ensure a holistic awareness of the environmental impact of its …

When closed loop product lifecycle management was first introduced, much effort focused
on establishing ways to communicate data between different lifecycle phase activities. The …

The introduction of Industry 4.0 is expected to revolutionize current maintenance practices
by reaching new levels of predictive (detection, diagnosis, and prognosis processes) and …

The integration of wireless and mobile technologies with web-based programming has
enabled e-Maintenance to emerge as a powerful technological framework to support …