Today, the manufacturing industry is aiming to improve competitiveness through the
convergence with cutting-edge ICT technologies in order to secure a new growth engine …

Future industrial systems can be realized using the cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that
advocate the coexistence of cyber and physical counterparts in a network structure to …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is an emergent approach that focuses on the
integration of computational applications with physical devices, being designed as a …

Strongly rooted in the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems-enabled
manufacturing, disruptive paradigms like the Factory of the Future and Industry 4.0 envision …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a computing paradigm whereby everyday life objects are
augmented with computational and wireless communication capabilities, typically through …

Contemporary industrial systems are challenged by fast-growing requirements for agile and
effective reactivity to rapidly changing market demands. To achieve this set of requirements …

In the past decade, we have witnessed explosive growth in the number of low-power
embedded and Internet-connected devices, reinforcing the new paradigm, Internet of Things …

Industry 4.0 is a trend related to smart factories, which are cyber-physical spaces populated
and controlled by the collective intelligence for the autonomous and highly flexible …

The IEC 61499 standard was proposed for distributed architecture design of industrial
automation systems to support portability, interoperability, and configurability. Compared …

Industrial automation systems (IASs) are commonly developed using the languages defined
by the IEC 61131 standard and are executed on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) …