Direct digital manufacturing, or '3D printing'as it is more commonly known, offers a wealth of
opportunities for product and process innovation, and is often touted to 'revolutionize'today's …

This paper explores the evolving industrial control paradigm of product intelligence. The
approach seeks to give a customer greater control over the processing of an order–by …

Purpose Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) could act as a practical approach to offer
sustainability deliverables in manufacturing firms aligning with the natural resource-based …

This paper proposes an approach for facilitating systems interoperability in a manufacturing
environment. It is based on the postulate that an ontological model of a product may be …

In a networked environment, it is essential for organizations to share knowledge among
themselves if they want to achieve the global objectives such as collaborative innovation …

Digital twins are expected to form a network, a “Digital Twin Web,” in the future. Digital Twin
Web follows a similar structure to the World Wide Web and consists of meta-level digital …

Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is a combination of product modeling and manufacturing
technology that directly converts digital models to physical objects without the need for …

Due to the emergence of the Internet of Things, supply chain control can increasingly be
based on virtual objects instead of on the direct observation of physical objects. Object …

Product intelligence is a new industrial manufacturing control paradigm aligned with the
context of cyber-physical systems and addressing the current requirements of flexibility …

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