This paper summarizes a vision of the challenges facing the so-called “Industry of the
Future” as studied by the research community of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on …

With continued global market growth and an increasingly competitive environment,
manufacturing industry is facing challenges and desires to seek continuous improvement …

This editorial introduces the special issue of the Elsevier journal, Engineering Application of
Artificial Intelligence, on Distributed control of production systems. The current technology in …

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 …

Modeling interdependencies in a production process is a vital aspect of process
engineering. Being built on the fundamental understanding of the process and capturing …

Product intelligence is a new industrial manufacturing control paradigm aligned with the
context of cyber-physical systems and addressing the current requirements of flexibility …

We propose a multi-agent-based architecture for the management of Emergency Supply
Chains (ESCs), in which each zone is controlled by an agent. A Decision Support System …

With the advent of the Internet and the progressive development and consolidation of a wide
range of web standards and technologies as well as the advances in distributed artificial …

Monitoring is an important part of manufacturing process control and management. It plays a
crucial role in ensuring agility in a manufacturing system, process robustness …

This paper provides a survey of the main advanced control techniques currently adopted in
factory automation. In particular, it focuses on five classes of control approaches, namely …