The European building stock is in high need of refurbishment due to its contribution excessive global energy consumption. In the North-Sea Region (NSR) alone there are 22 million houses built between 1950 and 1985 with an annual CO2 emission 79 Mton. Current deep retrofits carried out on a limited-scale production, which may result climate targets not being met time. To tackle for rapid renovat...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is getting smaller and faster at a dashing pace and is increasingly pervading production technology. This penetration of ICT within and across production technology enables companies to aggregate and utilize massive amounts of data of production processes, both horizontally (across different products) and vertically (from machine level, over the sh...

In this work, the results of Ultra-Wideband air-to-ground measurements carried out in a real-world factory environment are presented and discussed. With intelligent in-dustrial deployments mind, we envision scenario where Unmanned Aerial Vehicle can be used as supplementary tool for operation, optimization control. Measurements address narrow band wide characterization wireless radio channel, l...

Co-working is a new trend for integrating service robots into smart environments, such as homes or assembly lines of manufactories. Modern sensitive robots recognize human beings in their neighborhood and stop when touched, so that they can be integrated into their environment much better as in the past. Robots come out of the cage, and this creates a lot of opportunities for scalable automatio...

Smart factories face the opportunities and challenges brought by globalization new technologies, which requires flexible practical approaches to lean manufacturing optimization. The asset administration shell (AAS) is expected help better cope with throughout life cycle. This paper proposes a methodological framework for building AAS whole lifecycle of smart factory. Based on framework, theory ...

Adoption of digital twins in smart factories, that model real statuses manufacturing systems through simulation with time actualization, are manifested the form increased productivity, as well reduction costs and energy consumption. The sharp increase changing customer demands has resulted factories transitioning rapidly yielding shorter product life cycles. Traditional modeling approaches not ...