Nowadays, manufacturing firms need the reconfigurability capability to be responsive in the
current context characterised by unpredictable and frequent market changes and the …

Industrial cloud robotics (ICR) integrates cloud computing with industrial robots (IRs). The
capabilities of industrial robots can be encapsulated as cloud services and used for …

Product development requires sharing information of a diverse nature between several
actors. Since the new products resulting from this process often require assembly as part of …

Increasing customization has driven manufacturers to develop more flexible manufacturing
systems. In these systems, different models of the same part are able to share the same …

Purpose Product development process (PDP) in the context of Industry 4.0 may present
several marketing implications. To understand these implications, the purpose of this study …

To guarantee the docking accuracy of large-scale components, their assembly interfaces
usually need to be finished before the final assembly. However, there are some crucial …

Purpose In the last decade, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has attracted considerable attention
from academia and industry worldwide. It is widely accepted that the design and analysis of …

With the constant growth in size and complexity of modern industrial applications, it is not
suitable to use a unique and centralized controller device for the whole process. Thus …

STEP-NC (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data–Numerical Control) for metal
milling and turning is not implemented by industrial computer numerical controllers …

Most large aerospace cylindrical components still adopt a manual aligning method with low
automation, large manual intervention, and heavy dependence on operator workers …