There is a lack of a design method for the manufacturing system reconfiguration to cope with
the changing demand and evolving production technologies while minimising energy …

In increasingly unstable political, economic, environmental, and societal environments and
under the pressure of globalization, growing competition, increasingly complex …

To face market volatility, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) aim to efficiently and
cost-effectively react to changes. We focus on one characteristic of RMS: the scalability …

In recent years, we have observed rapid changes in the customer demand along with
shorter product life cycles. In addition, sustainability concerns about production systems are …

Industry is more and more urged towards energy efficiency by the increasing societal and
environmental concern about energy. This is also true for more recent production system …

The reconfigurable manufacturing systems aim to efficiently respond to demand changes.
One of the key characteristics of these systems is the scalability, ie the ability to modify the …

Energy consumption has become a major concern for society, and since the industrial sector
is the largest consumer, companies are urged to improve energy efficiency of their …

Abstract Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) have emerged as a promising
approach to address the dynamic demands and uncertainties in modern manufacturing …

Sustainable manufacturing (SM) is becoming a prominent manufacturing paradigm in the
academic and industrial domains as users pay greater attention to the environment and …

Among the many changes in industrial production brought by Industry 4.0, product shorter
lifetime and wider variety are two of the hardest challenges that manufacturing systems must …