Digital Twin was introduced over a decade ago, as an innovative all-encompassing tool,
with perceived benefits including real-time monitoring, simulation, optimisation and accurate …

There is an ongoing paradigm shift in manufacturing, in which the modern manufacturing
industry is changing towards global manufacturing networks and supply chains. This will …

An increasing number of information management and information exchange applications in
construction industry is relying on semantic web technologies or tools from the Linked Open …

Cloud manufacturing is a new concept extending and adopting the concept of Cloud
computing for manufacturing. The aim is to transform manufacturing businesses to a new …

Semantic Web technologies are becoming more and more appealing to the community of
the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) users. The recent actions towards the development of …

Competitive manufacturing companies have to effectively deal with the concurrent evolution
of products, processes and production systems. This problem, known as Co-evolution, can …

Imagine the possibility to save a simulation at any time, modify or analyze it, and restart
again with exactly the same state. The conceptualization and its concrete manifestation in …

This research study deals with the early design and planning of manufacturing systems,
following a knowledge reuse approach. The proposed approach introduces a knowledge …

Modelling, simulation and evaluation of manufacturing systems are relevant activities that
may strongly impact on the competitiveness of production enterprises both during the design …

The paradigm shift from mass production to mass customisation and reduced product
lifecycles requires continuous re-engineering/configuration of modern manufacturing …