Enabling mass customization and manufacturing sustainability in industry 4.0 context: A novel heuristic algorithm for in-plant material supply optimization

M Fathi, M Ghobakhloo - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation of consumer markets require
contemporary manufacturers to rethink and reshape their business models to deal with the …

A complex garment assembly line balancing using simulation‐based optimization

O Bongomin, JI Mwasiagi, EO Nganyi… - Engineering …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The nascent wave of disruptive competition in the current business environment brought
about by the fourth industrial revolution (Fashion 4.0 or Apparel 4.0) is enormous. Therefore …

Selection of the number of components for finite mixtures of linear mixed models

L Novais, S Faria - Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decades, linear models have been studied by the scientific community as an
important tool of statistical modelling in a great variety of phenomena. However, in many …

The impact of collaborative decision-making in a smart manufacturing environment: case study using an automated water bottling plant

J Coetzer, RB Kuriakose, HJ Vermaak… - Proceedings of Seventh …, 2022 - Springer
With the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), following three previous
industrial revolutions, many disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of …

Devising a novel means of introducing collaborative decision-making to an automated water bottling plant to study the impact of positive drift

J Coetzer, RB Kuriakose, HJ Vermaak - ICT Analysis and Applications …, 2020 - Springer
Cycle time refers to the amount of time allotted to accomplish a certain process in an
assembly process. The deviation from the optimal cycle time is technically referred to as drift …

Designing an Experimental Setup for Data Provenance Tracking using a Public Blockchain: A Case Study using a Water Bottling Plant.

OL Mokalusi, RB Kuriakose… - International Journal of …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Data provenance, in an end-to-end supply chain context, refers to the tracking of the origin
and history of every raw material, process, packaging and distribution involved in a …

Using the OEE Score to Enable Collaborative Decision-Making for Human–Machine Interaction in an Industry 5.0 Setting

J Coetzer, RB Kuriakose, HJ Vermaak - World Conference on Information …, 2023 - Springer
Industry 5.0 characterizes a paradigm shift in which the main goal is no longer the need to
boost economic benefits brought about by the unending increase in production processes in …

Integrating IoT Sensors to Setup a Digital Twin of a Mixed Model Stochastic System for Real-Time Monitoring

P Tshabalala, RB Kuriakose - International Congress on Information and …, 2023 - Springer
The ongoing digital revolution, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0 has underpinned the
importance of real-time monitoring in the manufacturing industry. Real-time monitoring …

Developing a protocol for collaborative decision-making in a smart manufacturing environment

J Coetzer - 2023 - ir.cut.ac.za
The Fourth Industrial Revolution places different rapidly advancing technologies like the
Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of Everything (IoE) and Cyber …