Industry 4.0 is a ubiquitous term throughout general newspapers, on company websites or in
scientific journals. One of its key constructs is the smart factory, envisioned as a future state …

Our next generation of industry—Industry 4.0—holds the promise of increased flexibility in
manufacturing, along with mass customization, better quality, and improved productivity. It …

Considering the crucial role Information Technology (IT) plays in achieving performance
improvements in business processes, this paper aims to explore the potential impact of the …

Digital twin technology is considered as a key technology to realize cyber-physical systems
(CPS). However, due to the complexity of building a digital equivalent in virtual space to its …

Digital twin (DT) technology provides a novel, feasible, and clear implementation path for the
realization of smart manufacturing and cyber-physical systems (CPS). Currently, DT is …

With rapid advances in new generation information technologies, digital twin (DT), and cyber-
physical system, smart assembly has become a core focus for intelligent manufacturing in …

Assembly systems (ASs) have moved into the era of mass customisation and Industry 4.0 (I4.
0). Mass customisation involves a shift from the production of high quantities of the same …

Cloud manufacturing (CM) and Internet of things (IoT) are interlinked, yet most works only
focused on one of them and take the other as a constituent technology unit. This is …

Mass-customization production (MCP) companies must fight with shop-floor uncertainty and
complexity caused by wide variety of product components. The research is motivated by a …

Currently, the typical challenges that manufacturing enterprises faced are the lack of timely,
accurate and consistent information of manufacturing things (resources) during …