In the last few years, Industrial Information Integration Engineering (IIIE) has attracted much
attention by the information and communications technology (ICT) community. However …

Under a mass individualisation paradigm, the individualised design of manufacturing
systems is difficult as it involves adaptive integrating both new and legacy machines for the …

Manufacturing in a job-shop environment is often characterized by a large variety of
products in small batch sizes, requiring real-time monitoring for dynamic distributed decision …

This paper presents a novel approach to implementing cyber-physical systems (CPS) using
the combined strength of holons, agents and function blocks. Within the context, a CPS is …

In the domain of manufacturing, computer numerically controllers (CNC) technology is a
major contributor to the production capacity of the enterprises. The advances in CNC …

Today's manufacturing and assembly systems have to be flexible to adapt quickly to an
increasing number and variety of products, and changing market volumes. To manage these …

In recent decades, robotic manufacturing systems have been considered as effective
solutions for providing more productive manufacturing processes, but with less cost and risk …

Modern manufacturing industries demand computer numeric controllers, having higher level
input languages than outdated G-code, and less proprietary vendor dependencies. IEC …

Since discrete manufacturing system (DMS) is a complicated dynamic network that
comprises of processes, machines, and work in process, a coherent methodology for …

Energy efficiency remains one of the major issues in the machining domain. Today's
machining systems are confronted with a number of new challenges, such as turbulent …