Smart products have received increasing attention from researchers and practitioners alike.
One limitation of the existing literature, however, is that the term is often used as a blanket …

Industry 4.0 has introduced new technological advances such as Additive Manufacturing
(AM), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Cyber–physical systems (CPS) …

Industry 4.0 combines the strengths of traditional industries with cutting edge internet
technologies. It embraces a set of technologies enabling smart products integrated into …

In the last few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining more and more attention both in
the academic and in the industrial worlds. IoT is a concept describing a vision in which …

Technological innovations are increasing the opportunities to develop technically and
economically feasible Smart Products. However, the development of Smart Products …

While the move towards Industry 4.0 has motivated a re-evaluation of how a manufacturing
organization should operate in light of the availability of a new generation of digital …

The potential transformation cyber-physical systems can bring to a broad variety of domains
is widely discussed in academia and industry. Despite the expected benefits in the industrial …

Purpose With the advancements of Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) in
recent years, smart objects (SOs) have been widely applied in the lives of consumers to fulfill …

Companies, and especially manufacturers, are facing today a truly complex scenario, with
technology developing at a fast speed and demanding a digital transformation to face the …

The recent emergence of clouds with large, virtualized pools of compute and storage
resources raises the possibility of a new compute paradigm for scientific research. With …