The increasing complexity of industrial processes, the continuing search for higher profits,
and increasingly demanding production constraints call for the implementation of a proactive …

The flexibility claimed by the next generation production systems induces a deep
modification of the behaviour and the core itself of the control systems. Over-connectivity and …

Nowadays, along with the application of new-generation information technologies in
industry and manufacturing, the big data-driven manufacturing era is coming. However …

The concept of digital twin was originally proposed to assist product lifecycle management
through the high-fidelity virtual product. In product lifecycle, there are many participators …

Circular economy (CE) paradigm fosters manufacturing companies' sustainability taking
place through different circular manufacturing (CM) strategies. These strategies allow …

Today's highly volatile production environments call for adaptive and rapidly responding
production systems that can adjust to the required changes in processing functions …

With the advent of the information and related emerging technologies, such as RFID, small
size sensors and sensor networks or, more generally, product embedded information …

Digital Twin (DT) is an emerging technology that replicates any physical phenomenon from
a physical space to a digital space in congruence with the physical state. However, devising …