Many problems in manufacturing systems can be formulated via Markov stochastic
modeling. This paper gives a review and classification of timed models of manufacturing …

Design for sustainable manufacturing enterprise (DFSME) is considered to be a new
ideologue regarding survival of manufacturing enterprise and it can also be considered as …

Predictive maintenance (PM) and quality management help to improve the business bottom
line by alleviating the system performance degradation caused by unscheduled machine …

ABSTRACT The Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) has drawn the interest of
researchers and practitioners due to its ability to meet dynamic customer needs while also …

This paper provides a survey of the main advanced control techniques currently adopted in
factory automation. In particular, it focuses on five classes of control approaches, namely …

Petri nets are a powerful graphical tool for modeling, analyzing, and control concurrent,
parallel, simultaneous, synchronous, distributed, and resource sharing manufacturing …

Abstract Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) have gained importance in the
current context of increasing high variety demand, Mass Customization (MC) and market …

This paper proposes to use a Petri net framework together with simulation technology to
model and analyse distributed manufacturing networks. With the distinct modelling features …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a “Reconfiguration Methodology” in
manufacturing systems that they can become more economically sustainable and can …

Integrating Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies into manufacturing systems is
regarded as a potential solution to improve the effectiveness of the production process flow …