Featured Application This work was elaborated in the frame of a collaborative innovation
project named CyberFactory# 1 which aims at enhancing optimization and resilience of …

This paper proposes an innovative real-time manufacturing cost tracking system (RT-MCT)
which integrates the concepts of lean manufacturing and RFID. The RT-MCT is developed …

A manufacturing based organization operates in an environment where a fast and effective
decision is needed. This is to ensure that the output is met with customer compliance. There …

Within the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, smart manufacturing will plays critical role in
national level for the growth of the national economy, but also firm level for the sustainable …

The fourth industrial revolution is enticing businesses to go digital. In this paper, we have
determined the dimensions that help in implementing industry 4.0 in SMEs. A systematic …

Globalization is a process that has continuity, even though interrupted sometimes.
Globalization has no loyalty to anything and this is its most prominent feature of …

The evolution of the definition of industry into the Smart factories has provide a big
improvements in terms of production efficiency and promoted new ways to implement …

One major goal of the Rethinking Prototyping project is to bring scientists from different
domains like engineering and arts to explore collaboratively new approaches of …

The paper, which is based on a literature review, concerns which potential through-lifecycle
aspects are relevant to consider for Functional Products during development and later …

This paper proposes a novel service approach to quality monitoring (QM) in a distributed
manufacturing system by implementing a network of autonomous work systems (AWSs). A …