Increasing material’s strength is of particular importance. Improving material’s mechanical properties such as strength could reduce the size and weight of the structure. The size and weight of the structure are among the effective parameters in design. Since the past a variety of methods have been developed to increase the strength of metals that are capable of increasing metals’ strength to a...

The factory of the future will be heavily based on service oriented architecture approaches. Business continuity will need to be guaranteed as interactions in the shop-floor will be more complex and demanding. In parallel sustainable manufacturing is emerging as a new approach to address economical, environmental, and societal issues. In this context, maintenance will play a major role. In part...

By examining sheet metal parts it is rather evident that each sheet metal shape has its own manufacturing procedure. There are several manufacturing devices behind each procedure. This means that each shape can be divided into manufacturing features, which consist of shapes of sheet metal and their manufacturing methods. When creating rules and structures for manufacturing features, it is possi...

There is currently a gap in the technology covering the rapid establishment of control after a reconfiguration in a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System. This gap involves the detection of the factory floor state and the communication link between the factory floor and the high-level software. In this paper, a thin, hardware-supported Middleware Management System (MMS) is proposed and its design...

Smart manufacturing, today, is the ability to continuously maintain and improve performance, with intensive use of information, in response to the changing environments. Technologies for creating smart manufacturing systems or factories are becoming increasingly abundant. Consequently, manufacturers, large and small, need to correctly select and prioritize these technologies correctly. In addit...

The rise of Industry 4.0, which employs emerging powerful and intelligent technologies represents the digital transformation manufacturing, has a significant impact on society, industry, other production sectors. industrial scene is witnessing ever-increasing pressure to improve its agility versatility accommodate highly modularized, customized, dynamic demands production. One key concepts with...