Smart systems and artificial intelligence are playing an ever-increasing role in our daily
lives. This trend does not spare industry and production, entailing the potential to gradually …

Modern manufacturing and logistics systems are supported by increasingly ubiquitous and
powerful computing networks. Within these networks, oceans of data are continuously being …

Thanos Papadopoulos a, Uthayasankar Sivarajah b, Konstantina Spanaki c, Stella
Despoudi d, e and Angappa Gunasekaran f aKent Business School, University of Kent …

The fast-growing literature corpus of industry 4.0 in the last years also reflects the various
applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the manufacturing …

The term Industry 4.0 has become increasingly pervasive in the context of industrial
manufacturing and it has been considered the fourth industrial revolution (Henning [1]). The …

Manufacturing factories, having continuous pursuit of productivity and quality, often meet
challenges in coping with high production complexities and uncertainties. These are the …

The period of the fourth industrial revolution, called Industry 4.0, is characterized by new,
innovative technologies such as: Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things; the Industrial …

Production companies are required to implement efficient, flexible manufacturing processes
to face the competitive global market. The ongoing digital transformation leads many …

Manufacturing companies face challenges when it comes to quickly adapting their
production control to fluctuating demands or changing requirements. Control approaches …

Production activities are generating a large amount of data in different types (ie, text,
images), that is not well exploited. This data can be translated easily to knowledge that can …