Development of mechatronic systems requires collaboration among experts from different
design domains. In this paper the authors identify a set of challenges related to the design of …

Manufacturing enterprises are changing the way they behave in the market to face the
increasing complexity of the economic, socio-political and technological dynamics …

The increasing demand for flexibility and reconfigurability of assembly lines generates new
challenges for the control of these lines and their subsystems, such as robots, grippers …

The paper presents different approaches to implement the execution model of an IEC 61499
application. The IEC 61499 standard defines the application as a function block network …

Factories of the future must be capable to adapt themselves to continuously changing
market demand. Therefore new manufacturing technologies are needed: from agile …

Remarkable grow in demand both of mobile platform operability performance and reduction
of project leading time development encourage to apply modern algorithms and reliable …

The proposed work outlines the production system (re) configuration problem from the real-
time system automation perspective. A multi-level approach to support the development of …

On the factory shop-floor adaptive automation and scheduling plays a sensitive role for
production systems' agility, representing the soft layer between the factory physical …

The paper presents a prototypical implementation of a Java thread-based run-time
environment for IEC 61499 applications and its use in the application design process. In …

In the paper, the problem of modelling and designing of reconfigurable and reusable
distributed automation systems is addressed. Such systems are characterized by the …