Abstract The evolution of manufacturing systems, influenced by changes along four axes - products, technology, business strategies and production paradigms is presented. Adoption human-centric decision making in meshed collaboration with intelligent systems examined. Implications preparedness for the shift towards more responsive, adaptive are reviewed. Research industrial use cases A vision ne...

Abstract In the last decades, research and development of microfluidics have made extraordinary progress, since they revolutionized biological chemical fields as a backbone lab-on-a-chip systems. Further advancement pushes to miniaturize architectures nanoscale in terms both sizes fluid dynamics for some specific applications including investigation sub-cellular aspects analysis with much impro...

Although the design and management of manufacturing systems have been explored in literature for many years now, they still remain topical problems current scientific research [...]

The dream of holonic manufacturing is that fully operational Computer Integrated Manufacturing systems can be installed by merely plugging together manufacturing resources that are each controlled by an individual agent. The functionality of an holonic architecture would supersede and integrate the functionality currently in the islands of automation in Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) ...

Energy efficiency is one of the key drivers for sustainability. Within manufacturing environments, energy efficiency importance has grown, and it is now considered among other decision-making factors such as productivity, cost and flexibility. However, in most cases the energy consumption of the various components of the manufacturing systems, such as machine tools, are considered using average...

This paper describes the NIST Manufacturing Business-toBusiness Interoperability Testbed developed at the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The testbed is geared to advance state of practice and art in interoperable information systems for the extended manufacturing enterprise. We discuss lessons learned while developing a Web-base...

Agent-based technology has been taken as an important approach for developing advanced manufacturing systems. Learning is one of the key techniques for implementing such systems. This paper proposes some learning issues in agent-based manufacturing systems for further discussion in the working group. As examples, the paper describes two implemented learning mechanisms and presents some experime...