Industry 4.0 is based on the digitization of manufacturing industries and has raised the
prospect for substantial improvements in productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. This …

Ongoing urbanization and increasing decentralization of production have increased interest
in the urban factory concept. Urban factories are production systems located in an urban …

Industrial companies are nowadays acting in global production networks (GPNs). A
comprehensive scientific overview of those networks is still missing. To close this gap, a …

Demand forecasting is of major importance for manufacturing companies since it provides a
basis for production planning. However, demand forecasting can be a difficult task because …

Today, globalized markets require more resilient and agile manufacturing systems, as well
as customized and virtualized features. Classical self-standing manufacturing systems are …

Industry 4.0 rose with the introduction of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of things
(IoT) inside manufacturing systems. CPS represent self-controlled physical processes …

Abstract Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) play a crucial role in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. The
application of CPSs in production and manufacturing environments gave rise to the term …

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have attracted significant research interest because of their
promising applications across different domains; nonetheless, how to effectively model …

Future cyber manufacturing is envisioned to be fulfilled in a crowdsourcing environment that
will engage a large population of manufacturer crowds to collaborate with the cyber platform …

Abstract Service social network is an umbrella term used to describe several interaction and
collaboration phenomena that are sha** the future of how services are provided on the …