Scholars and practitioners have considered Industry 4.0 a comprehensive set of emerging
technologies that establish a new industrial perspective based on the “Internet of Things”. As …

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistic transport
systems in today's industry. They are used on a large scale, especially in Europe, for over a …

With the advancement of the 4th industrial revolution and its enabling technologies,
researchers and practitioners discuss the mutual relationships and integration of Lean …

Since the Third Industrial Revolution, technology and the global economy have developed
rapidly. Driven by market demand and the development of science and technology, the …

Personalized production has emerged as a result of the increasing customer demand for
more personalized products. Personalized production systems carry a greater amount of …

Manufacturing systems are subject to continuous changing conditions, which are due both to
external reasons (eg changing demand) and to the natural system evolution,(eg machine …

Optimisation of factories, a cornerstone of production engineering for the past half century,
relies on formulating the challenges with limited degrees of freedom. In this paper …

Smart manufacturing is built on complex decision-making in real-time based on data from
networked machines and sensors. As a potential enabler of smart manufacturing …

Emergencies, and efforts to address them, create disruptions to local and global supply
chains and surges in demand of emergency resources, which substantially affect global …

The question of the benefits of autonomous control is more important than ever: production
managers, governments and society hope that the vision of smart and digital production …