The current manufacturing environment aims at getting an increasing variety of customised,
high-quality products in flexible batches. The dynamic market demand, the short product …

Nowadays we live in a world, whicha decade ago would only be described in the science
fiction literature. More and more things become smart and both scientists and engineers …

Research on supply chain (SC) digitalization, resilience, sustainability and leagility has
remarkably progressed, most of it focused on the individual contributions of these four major …

Since 1960s, with the development of societal and related technologies, many advanced
manufacturing systems (AMSs) and modes have been put forward, and they have attracted …

In this paper, a bibliographical review on reconfigurable (active) fault-tolerant control
systems (FTCS) is presented. The existing approaches to fault detection and diagnosis …

Flexibility and changeability are key enablers for meeting the challenges of a global market.
The paper first describes the main change drivers and takes then a deeper look at how …

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that
engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that …

Smart products supported by new step-changing technologies, such as Internet of Things
and artificial intelligence, are now emerging in the market. Smart products are cyber physical …

This paper provides a literature review and an analysis of the studies related to workforce
reconfiguration strategies as a part of workforce planning for various production …

In this paper, general requirements of next generation manufacturing systems are
discussed, and the strategies to meet these requirements are considered. The production …