Industry increasingly moves towards digitally enabled 'smart factories' that utilise the internet
of things (IoT) to realise intelligent manufacturing concepts like predictive maintenance or …

New technologies, such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, wireless
communications, etc., have already become part of our daily lives. This paper provides an …

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the scientific debate on Quality 4.0 by exploring
the main theoretical themes underpinning the Quality 4.0 model and how the model may be …

Due to increasing complexity of products and the demographic change at manual assembly
workplaces, interactive and context-aware instructions for assembling products are …

The main purpose of this paper is to develop an implementation guideline for manufacturing
companies integrating ISO 9001 requirements and Industry 4.0 technologies. The …

In the past 10 years, ubiquitous manufacturing (UM) has received a growing amount of
attention among researchers in the manufacturing community because ubiquitous …

Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) aims to augment people's auditory perception of the real
world by synthesizing virtual spatialized sounds. AAR has begun to attract more research …

One of the major problems in automotive assembly consists in achieving alignment within
the specified tolerances between car panels that make up the exterior bodywork. To reduce …

Due to mass customization product variety increased steeply in the automotive industry,
entailing the increment of worker's cognitive load during manual assembly tasks. Although …

Industry 4.0 or Industrial IoT both describe new paradigms for seamless interaction between
humans and machines. Both concepts rely on intelligent, inter-connected cyber-physical …