Modern manufacturing networks consist of cyber-physical systems (CPS) which offer an
array of interesting capabilities, ranging from local computation over data generation to …

The modern food processing industry faces complex and multi-faceted decisions from the
day a new food product/process is formulated to its commercial-scale production. Key …

Process cooling for food production is an energy-intensive industry with complex
interactions and restrictions that complicate the ability to utilize energy-flexibility due to …

Many intelligent distributed production control architectures have been developed for cyber-
physical production systems (CPPSs), but the difficulty in predicting performance has …

In this study, we tackle a key scheduling problem in a robotic arm-based food processing
system, where multiple conveyors—an infeed conveyor that feeds food items to robotic arms …

Meeting food safety requirements without jeopardizing quality attributes or sustainability
involves adopting a holistic perspective of food products, their manufacturing processes and …

The meat-processing industry is evolving to meet the demands of the ever-changing world.
Meatprocessing systems are becoming more and more complex to face challenges such as …