Smart manufacturing is arriving. It promises a future of mass-producing highly personalized
products via responsive autonomous manufacturing operations at a competitive cost. Of …

This paper provides a fundamental research review of Reconfigurable Manufacturing
Systems (RMS), which uniquely explores the state-of-the-art in distributed and decentralized …

Personalized orders bring challenges to the production paradigm, and there is an urgent
need for the dynamic responsiveness and self-adjustment ability of the workshop …

In human-robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change
their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace …

The evolution of manufacturing systems, influenced by changes along four axes-products,
technology, business strategies and production paradigms-is presented. Adoption of human …

One of the most significant advances in the development of computer science, information
and communication technologies is represented by the cyber-physical systems (CPS). They …

Abstract Digital twins, Internet of Things (IoT), block chains, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
may redefine our imagination and future vision of globalization. Digital Twin will likely affect …

This paper presents the current status and the latest advancement of cyber-physical systems
(CPS) in manufacturing. In order to understand CPS and its future potential in …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is an emergent approach that focuses on the
integration of computational applications with physical devices, being designed as a …

This paper addresses the background and current state of the field of agent-based
modelling and simulation (ABMS). It revisits the issue of ABMS represents as a new …