The increasing market fluctuations and customized products demand have dramatically
changed the focus of industry towards organizational sustainability and supply chain agility …

Automation has been long used to increase productivity, quality, reproducibility and
reliability in production factories. This strategy has been fruitful in the presence of stable …

Sustainability is currently one of the biggest challenges and drivers of manufacturing
industry. With traditional automation approaches becoming evermore inadequate to support …

In last decades, new manufacturing requirements have introduced new approaches for
distributed control and automation, some of them introducing concepts as self-organization …