Abstract In Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing is facing its next stage, cybermanufacturing,
founded upon advanced communication, computation, and control infrastructure …

This article presents the concepts, methodologies, and applications of In-Process Quality
Improvement (IPQI) in complex manufacturing systems. As opposed to traditional quality …

Both artificial intelligence (AI) and domain knowledge from human experts play an important
role in manufacturing decision making. Smart manufacturing emphasizes a fully automated …

Additive manufacturing (AM) enables flexible part geometry and functionality, and reduces
product development life cycle by direct layer-wise fabrication from CAD files. In the last …

Aerosol jet printing (AJP) is a direct write technology that enables fabrication of flexible, fine
scale printed electronics on conformal substrates. AJP does not require the time consuming …

Industrial facilities hide a high potential of flexibility, whose exploitation might contribute to
accelerating the decarbonization process. This study deals with the identification …

Single-crystal silicon ingots are produced from a complex crystal growth process. Such a
process is sensitive to subtle process condition changes, which may easily become failed …

Graphical models are widely used to model the statistical relationships among variables in a
system. Existing graphical models can be used to model the relationships among scalar …

In many science and engineering systems both quantitative and qualitative output
observations are collected. If modeled separately the important relationship between the two …

Fog manufacturing can greatly enhance traditional manufacturing systems through
distributed Fog computation units, which are governed by predictive computational workload …