One of the most significant advances in the development of computer science, information
and communication technologies is represented by the cyber-physical systems (CPS). They …

The unpredictable market scenario in the manufacturing industry demands the adoption of
reconfigurability enablers. These enablers reduce the reconfiguration effort throughout the …

Industry 4.0 is originally a future vision described in the high-tech strategy of the German
government that is conceived upon information and communication technologies like Cyber …

Production systems play an important role in intelligent manufacturing. A large number of
manufacturing resources are designed and developed with virtual (digital) ones, which will …

Abstract Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is a crucial technology for collaborative
manufacturing automation in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-empowered industrial …

The increasing demand for flexibility and reconfigurability of assembly lines generates new
challenges for the control of these lines and their subsystems, such as robots, grippers …

Manufacturing technology changes with the needs of consumers. The globalization of the
world economy has helped to create the concept of cloud manufacturing (CM). The purpose …

Current control systems are limited from a technical viewpoint in areas such as scalability,
start-up and reconfiguration time and computational complexity for algorithms. These …

Abstract Machine tool vendors and customers have expectations of the control system of a
machine tool being highly scalable, highly adaptable, fault-tolerant, easy to maintain and …

In recent years, the Industry 4.0 concept brings new demands and trends in different areas;
one of them is distributing computational power to the cloud. This concept also introduced …