Purpose Industry 4.0 is expected to significantly transform industrial value creation.
However, research on business models affected through Industry 4.0, and on small-and …

Current approaches to manufacturing must evolve to respond to increasing demands for
short product life cycles and customised products. Adaptive manufacturing systems integrate …

This paper highlights the necessity for a digital twin of production systems in the automotive
industry. The survey on the use case of a digital twin of the production line is conducted with …

Recent advances in manufacturing industry, and notably in the Industry 4.0 context, promote
the development of CPSs and consequently give rise to a number of issues to be solved …

Feature models have been used since the 90s to describe software product lines as a way of
reusing common parts in a family of software systems. In 2010, a systematic literature review …

Software testing is an important and cost intensive activity in software development. The
major contribution in cost is due to test case generations. Requirement-based testing is an …

Industry 4.0 smart production systems comprise industrial systems and subsystems that
need to be integrated in such a way that they are able to support high modularity and …

The increasing demand for flexibility and reconfigurability of assembly lines generates new
challenges for the control of these lines and their subsystems, such as robots, grippers …

Manufacturing companies face an environment that is dominated by influences which affect
the usage of their manufacturing equipment. Trends like shortening life cycles of products …

Safety-critical systems are becoming increasingly configurable. However, as the number of
features and configurations grows, the systems' complexity also increases, making cyber …