Contemporary organisations recognise the need for Anthropocene disruptions and
transform their business models, restructure their operations, and re-engineer their supply …

Global competitiveness challenges manufacturing industry to rationalise different ways of
bringing to the market new products in a short lead-time with competitive prices whilst …

The concept of the digital twin calls for virtual replicas of real world products. Achieving this
requires a sophisticated network of models that have a level of interconnectivity. The authors …

Smart product-service system (PSS) has been transcending scope of traditional PSS and
can be characterized as value co-creation business strategy. This article aims to propose a …

This paper introduces the development of a formal ontology based on spatiotemporal
mereotopology in the context of integrated assembly design and sequence planning. The …

The current competitive industrial context requires more flexible, intelligent and compact
product lifecycles, especially in the product development process where several lifecycle …

Contrary to classic document-based engineering, model-based systems engineering
(MBSE) is an approach that focuses on the definition of engineering artifacts as formal …

This paper introduces a novel modelling approach to geometric skeleton computation
enabling concurrent product engineering and assembly sequence planning. Current …

Manufacturing companies have shifted their interest toward comprehensive solutions and
novel digital technologies. These technologies, such as digital twins (DTs), have enabled …

The evolution of customer requirements and key technologies makes design change
unavoidable. Because of the functional and physical relations among parts and …