A review of the high-mix, low-volume manufacturing industry

ZL Gan, SN Musa, HJ Yap - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) industry has seen growth in the need for product
customisation with research to increase manufacturers' flexibility for the variation in market …

Complexity in manufacturing systems and its measures: a literature review

B Alkan, DA Vera, M Ahmad… - European Journal of …, 2018 - inderscienceonline.com
Complexity in manufacturing systems still remains a challenge and leads to operational
issues and increased production cost. In this paper, drivers of complexity and typical …

Digitalizing occupational health, safety and productivity for the operator 4.0

D Romero, S Mattsson, Å Fast-Berglund… - Advances in Production …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Industry 4.0 technologies, such as enterprise wearables, can foster better industrial
hygiene to keep operators healthy, safe, and motivated within emerging cyber-physical …

Forming a cognitive automation strategy for Operator 4.0 in complex assembly

S Mattsson, Å Fast-Berglund, D Li, P Thorvald - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to today's technological advances in the area of Industry 4.0, having a strategy for
cognitive automation solutions is crucial. Operator 4.0, will have handle and manage …

A systematic design method of adaptive augmented reality work instruction for complex industrial operations

J Geng, X Song, Y Pan, J Tang, Y Liu, D Zhao… - Computers in Industry, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the barriers that prevent augmented reality (AR) from being widely adopted in diverse
and complex industrial operations is the lack of adaptive and scalable AR work instruction …

Assessing perceived assembly complexity in human-robot collaboration processes: a proposal based on Thurstone's law of comparative judgement

M Capponi, R Gervasi, L Mastrogiacomo… - … Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the growing demand for customised products, companies have faced increasing
product and process complexity levels. To address this issue, manufacturing processes …

The cognitive operator 4.0

P Thorvald, Å Fast Berglund… - Advances in …, 2021 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Abstract While previous Industrial Revolutions have increasingly seen the human as a cog
in the system, each step reducing the cognitive content of work, Industry 4.0 contrarily views …

A virtual engineering based approach to verify structural complexity of component-based automation systems in early design phase

B Alkan, R Harrison - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Highly diverse factors including technological advancements, uncertain global market and
mass personalisation are believed to be main causes of ever-growing complexity of …

Measuring manufacturing system complexity: a literature review

GH Vidal, JR Coronado-Hernández… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
The measurement of complexity is a metric that can be used as a restructuring parameter in
a production system, and it is also useful for the analysis of improvements based on the …

Effects of information content in work instructions for operator performance

D Li, S Mattsson, O Salunkhe, Å Fast-Berglund… - Procedia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Operators remain as important resources in complex final assembly. To sustain a multi-
variant production, it is necessary for operators to manage high demands from a cognitive …