Manufacturing has faced significant changes during the last years, namely the move from a
local economy towards a global and competitive economy, with markets demanding for …

Nowadays, industrials are seeking for models and methods that are not only able to provide
efficient overall production performance, but also for reactive systems facing a growing set of …

Benchmarking is comparing the output of different systems for a given set of input data in
order to improve the system's performance. Faced with the lack of realistic and operational …

Nowadays, we are in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry
4.0. A set of technologies applied to the manufacturing landscape gives birth to a new …

The scheduling problem in manufacturing companies with high rework rates remains a
complex research area to date. This paper presents a new approach for manufacturing …

Semiconductor supply chains that manufacture integrated circuits consist of dozens of
semiconductor wafer fabrication, assembly and testing and storage facilities. The sheer size …

Product-driven control may enable manufacturing companies to meet business demands
more quickly and effectively. But a key point in making this concept acceptable by industry is …

This work introduces a novel perspective in the field of Holonic Manufacturing Systems,
based on wireless intelligent control of production systems. The presented control approach …

The benchmark of several high-level control strategies is required during the design of
flexible manufacturing systems. Virtual commissioning is a popular approach to test and …

Recent trends in industry towards autonomous and just-in-time production systems, and the
latest developments in auto-ID technologies, have created new opportunities for enhancing …