Modern manufacturing systems are struggling to remain competitive under the pressures of and increasingly demanding society. The advent of SoAbased production systems is presented as the solution to facing those difficulties. In order to support this new production paradigm, new tools have to be developed for the benefit of the production engineers of who will be implementing and deploying the ...

Industry 4.0 factories become more and more complex with increased maintenance costs. Reducing costs by cyber-physical (CP) controllers should ensure the commercialization of the CPS for smart factory project results. We implement multi-adaptive CP controllers in the following domains: industrial robot arms, car manufacturing, steel industry, and assembly lines in general. The main objective is...

A new generation of sensor rich, massively distributed, autonomous systems is being developed that has the potential for unprecedented performance, such as networks of smart buildings, reconngurable factories, spacecraft constellations and remote earth ecosystem monitoring. To achieve high performance these immobile robots will need to use their sensors to accurately model themselves and their ...

Smart factories that allow flexible production of highly individualized goods require flexible robots, usable in efficient assembly lines. Compliant robots can work safely in shared environments with domain experts, who have to program such robots easily for arbitrary tasks. We propose a new domain-specific language and toolchain for robot assembly tasks for compliant manipulators. With the Lig...

Moveable factories can enable leapfrogging of fixed industrial factories, and so make immediate contributions to global goals of more resilient sustainable manufacturing. Moveable factories bring into use diverse technological advances that reduce the number, size, and weight of machines needed to carry out manufacturing operations at points of supply and/or demand. However, fixed industrial fa...

We are now witnessing the rapid growth of advanced technologies and their application, leading to Smart Manufacturing (SM). The Internet Things (IoT) is one main used enable smart factories, which connecting all industrial assets, including machines control systems, with information systems business processes. Industrial Control Systems IoT-based factories top industries attacked by numerous th...

In Nigeria, the factories ACTS of 1955, came into force on 1st September 1956, the factories (Amendment) ordinance, 1458, which came into operation on 1st April, 1959 made slight changes in some section of the original Act. And again in 1984, yet more changes were made in the factories Act. The factory Act lays down in general terms the minimum standard for safety, health and welfare of factory...

Briefing: The rapid advancement of fundamental theories and computing capacity has brought artificial intelligence, internet things, extended reality, many other new intelligent technologies into our daily lives. Due to the lack interpretability reliability guarantees, it is extremely challenging apply these directly real-world industrial systems. Here we present a paradigm for establishing par...