Nowadays, manufacturing organisations face increasing pressures from the frequent
change in product type, continuous demand fluctuation and unexpected change in customer …

ABSTRACT A social manufacturing (SM) system for the footwear industry is proposed to
improve customisation accuracy and efficiency through the use of big data and …

The supply chain (SC) is often defined as a network that is composed of different functions,
including suppliers, manufacturing plants, warehouses/distribution centers, retailers and …

This chapter describes the evolution of automation from Industry 1.0 to 3.0 as well as e‐
Manufacturing, which is the predecessor of Industry 4.0. It presents the core technologies of …

Virtual metrology (VM) is a technology to predict metrology variables using information about
the state of the process for every workpiece. An advanced dual-phase VM scheme …

The main challenges in sensor network based monitoring systems are the control and
management of complex modules and elements interacting among them and with the …

E-manufacturing is an advanced manufacturing that takes advantage of the information and
Internet technologies to integrate all functional components of a factory. An e-manufacturing …

The worldwide extraordinary level of interest in digital information networks' deployment
among nations is due to the strong perception that they bring economic, social and …

Purpose: Project deviations are so significant that various methods have been proposed to
measure them over the years. Earned Duration Management (EDM) is a method that …

This work deals with fault recovery of discrete manufacturing systems modeled by Petri nets
(PN). A technique for fault recovery that exploits the redundancies included in the PN model …