In recent years, product knowledge has played increasingly significant roles in new product
development process especially in the development of One-of-a-Kind products. Although …

For governments and for manufacturing companies, global warming, rising energy prices,
and customers' increasing ecological awareness have pushed energy efficient …

Manufacturing enterprises are changing the way they behave in the market to face the
increasing complexity of the economic, socio-political and technological dynamics …

The paper discusses manufacturing enterprises' compelling challenges that are directly
stemming from generic conflicts between competition and cooperation, local autonomy and …

Closed-loop inspection manufacturing (CLIM) and computer-aided inspection planning
(CAIP) have increasingly been evolved into a size method that can be used to look at …

Competitive manufacturing companies have to effectively deal with the concurrent evolution
of products, processes and production systems. This problem, known as Co-evolution, can …

Environmental concerns, stricter legislation and inflated energy costs, together yield energy
efficiency as an important pillar for virtually every industrial sector. Mindful of this challenge …

Manufacturing companies have to manage a large amount of data and information. This is
due to both the presence of advanced sensors systems at the shop floor level and to the …

This paper discusses innovative “Plug-and-Play” scalable gateways using RFID devices and
establishing a Gateway Product Service System (GPSS) framework for cost-effective …

Adaptive automation systems allow the user to complete a task seamlessly with a computer
performing tasks at which the human operator struggles. Unlike traditional systems that …