Shortening product lifecycles and small lot sizes require manufacturing systems to adapt
increasingly fast. Many existing machine tools, handling and logistics systems are already …

To handle complexity in a modern reconfigurable production system from a strategic and
tactical planning perspective as well as to enable operational decision making a skill-based …

Plug and produce (PnP) aims at reducing system engineering effort. Therefore several PnP
aspects have to be solved. This paper gives an overview and classifies process types and …

This paper presents an approach to securely integrate industrial devices into automation
systems with a minimal engineering effort. A special specific focus is on the needed …

The Industrial Subgroup of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's Ontologies for
Robotics and Automation Working Group has developed extensions to the group's core …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a proposed methodology to extend the evolvable
assembly system (EAS) paradigm for product design by utilizing assembly features in a …

In this paper, a proposed method to support adaptability of assembly systems in grasping
operation is introduced. The method exploits the assembly features of a product to …