Industry 4.0 provides new paradigms for the industrial management of SMEs. Supported by
a growing number of new technologies, this concept appears more flexible and less …

Abstract Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) is about realizing digital transformation by linking machines to
plants, fleets, and humans through sensors and control elements in order to create smart …

Serious environmental problems, such as global resource depletion and climate warming,
have currently become the most discussed issues. The design and development of a green …

Modern manufacturing industry calls for a new generation of production system with better
interoperability and new business models. As a novel information technology, Cloud …

In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) techniques provide the capability to build parts
directly from CAD models by adding materials layer by layer. This technique allows …

Disturbances on manufacturing shop-floors and the increasing number of product variants
necessitate adaptive and flexible process planning methods. This paper proposes a service …

Hybrid manufacturing combines additive manufacturing's advantages of building complex
geometries and subtractive manufacturing's benefits of dimensional precision and surface …

Machining feature recognition serves as a foundational step in process planning, crucial for
translating design information into manufacturing information. Traditional rule-based …

Mass customized production brings great uncertainty to the computer-aided process
planning (CAPP). Current CAPP methods based on heuristic optimization assume in …

Automatic feature recognition (AFR) bridges CAD and CAPP systems. Existing AFR methods
mainly consider feature geometries, and the recognized machining features have limited …