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A Maturity Model for Assessing Industry 4.0 Readiness and Maturity of Manufacturing Enterprises Open
Manufacturing enterprises are currently facing substantial challenges with regard to disruptive concepts such as the Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems or Cloud-based Manufacturing – also referred to as Industry 4.0. Subsequently, …
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A Review of the Roles of Digital Twin in CPS-based Production Systems Open
The Digital Twin (DT) is one of the main concepts associated to the Industry 4.0 wave. This term is more and more used in industry and research initiatives; however, the scientific literature does not provide a unique definition of this co…
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Implementing Smart Factory of Industrie 4.0: An Outlook Open
With the application of Internet of Things and services to manufacturing, the fourth stage of industrialization, referred to as Industrie 4.0, is believed to be approaching. For Industrie 4.0 to come true, it is essential to implement the …
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Digital Twin Shop-Floor: A New Shop-Floor Paradigm Towards Smart Manufacturing Open
With the developments and applications of the new information technologies, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, a smart manufacturing era is coming. At the same time, various national manufac…
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“Industrie 4.0” and Smart Manufacturing – A Review of Research Issues and Application Examples Open
A fourth industrial revolution is occurring in global manufacturing. It is based on the introduction of Internet of things and servitization concepts into manufacturing companies, leading to vertically and horizontally integrated productio…
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Smart Factory of Industry 4.0: Key Technologies, Application Case, and Challenges Open
Due to the current structure of digital factory, it is necessary to build the smart factory to upgrade the manufacturing industry. Smart factory adopts the combination of physical technology and cyber technology and deeply integrates previ…
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Towards a semantic Construction Digital Twin: Directions for future research Open
As the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector is embracing the digital age, the processes involved in the design, construction and operation of built assets are more and more influenced by technologies dealing with value-added m…
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Scanning the Industry 4.0: A Literature Review on Technologies for Manufacturing Systems Open
Industry 4.0 leads to the digitalization era. Everything is digital; business models, environments, production systems, machines, operators, products and services. It’s all interconnected inside the digital scene with the corresponding vir…
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Ten Years of Industrie 4.0 Open
A decade after its introduction, Industrie 4.0 has been established globally as the dominant paradigm for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. Amalgamating research-based results and practical experience from the Germa…
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C2PS: A Digital Twin Architecture Reference Model for the Cloud-Based Cyber-Physical Systems Open
Cyber-physical system (CPS) is a new trend in the Internet-of-Things related research works, where physical systems act as the sensors to collect real-world information and communicate them to the computation modules (i.e. cyber layer), wh…
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Industrial Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0 - Systematic Review, Challenges and Outlook Open
The advent of the Industry 4.0 initiative has made it so that manufacturing environments are becoming more and more dynamic, connected but also inherently more complex, with additional inter-dependencies, uncertainties and large volumes of…
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A Survey on Industrial Internet of Things: A Cyber-Physical Systems Perspective Open
The vision of Industry 4.0, otherwise known as the fourth industrial revolution, is the integration of massively deployed smart computing and network technologies in industrial production and manufacturing settings for the purposes of auto…
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Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management Open
Industry 4.0 connotes a new industrial revolution centered around cyber-physical systems. It posits that the real-time connection of physical and digital systems, along with new enabling technologies, will change the way that work is done …
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Emerging flexible and wearable physical sensing platforms for healthcare and biomedical applications Open
There are now numerous emerging flexible and wearable sensing technologies that can perform a myriad of physical and physiological measurements. Rapid advances in developing and implementing such sensors in the last several years have demo…
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Smart manufacturing: Characteristics, technologies and enabling factors Open
The purpose of this article is to collect and structure the various characteristics, technologies and enabling factors available in the current body of knowledge that are associated with smart manufacturing. Eventually, it is expected that…
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A Survey of Physics-Based Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems Open
Monitoring the “physics” of cyber-physical systems to detect attacks is a growing area of research. In its basic form, a security monitor creates time-series models of sensor readings for an industrial control system and identifies anomali…
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A Survey on Model-Based Distributed Control and Filtering for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Open
Industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are large-scale, geographically dispersed, and life-critical systems, in which lots of sensors and actuators are embedded and networked together to facilitate real-time monitoring and closed-loop co…
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Human–Cyber–Physical Systems (HCPSs) in the Context of New-Generation Intelligent Manufacturing Open
An intelligent manufacturing system is a composite intelligent system comprising humans, cyber systems, and physical systems with the aim of achieving specific manufacturing goals at an optimized level. This kind of intelligent system is c…
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Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems Open
Future industrial systems can be realized using the cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that advocate the coexistence of cyber and physical counterparts in a network structure to perform the systems functions in a collaborative manner. Multiagen…
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Cyber‐physical attacks and defences in the smart grid: a survey Open
The smart grid is arguably one of the most complex cyber‐physical systems (CPS). Complex security challenges have been revealed in both the physical and the cyber parts of the smart grid, and an integrative analysis on the cyber‐physical (…
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Industry 4.0 Impacts on Lean Production Systems Open
The fourth industrial revolution and its Industry 4.0 or connected industry technologies dominates the current discussion of production research. Digital developments like cyber-physical Systems are the key technologies for future, more ag…
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Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems Open
This unique introduction to the foundational concepts of cyber-physical systems (CPS) describes key design principles and emerging research trends in detail. Several interdisciplinary applications are covered, with a focus on the wide-area…
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Security of smart manufacturing systems Open
A revolution in manufacturing systems is underway: substantial recent investment has been directed towards the development of smart manufacturing systems that are able to respond in real time to changes in customer demands, as well as the …
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Internet of Medical Things: A Review of Recent Contributions Dealing With Cyber-Physical Systems in Medicine Open
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Industry 4.0 Technologies for Manufacturing Sustainability: A Systematic Review and Future Research Directions Open
Recent developments in manufacturing processes and automation have led to the new industrial revolution termed “Industry 4.0”. Industry 4.0 can be considered as a broad domain which includes: data management, manufacturing competitiveness,…
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Defining and assessing industry 4.0 maturity levels – case of the defence sector Open
Firms do not currently fully appreciate the complex characteristics of Industry 4.0 and as a result are uncertain about what it represents for them. In this study, an assessment model is developed to measure the level of implementation of …
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Cloud-Assisted IoT-Based SCADA Systems Security: A Review of the State of the Art and Future Challenges Open
Industrial systems always prefer to reduce their operational expenses. To support such reductions, they need solutions that are capable of providing stability, fault tolerance, and flexibility. One such solution for industrial systems is c…
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Emerging research fields in safety and ergonomics in industrial collaborative robotics: A systematic literature review Open
Human–robot collaboration is a main technology of Industry 4.0 and is currently changing the shop floor of manufacturing companies. Collaborative robots are innovative industrial technologies introduced to help operators to perform manual …
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Distributed Attack Detection and Secure Estimation of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems Against False Data Injection Attacks and Jamming Attacks Open
This paper is concerned with the problem of joint distributed attack detection and distributed secure estimation for a networked cyber-physical system under physical and cyber attacks. The system is monitored by a wireless sensor network i…
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Guest Editorial Industry 4.0–Prerequisites and Visions Open
The papers in this special section focus on the concept of Industry 4.0. From its origin, Industry 4.0–derived from the German term Industrie 4.0–is used as a synonym for Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), i.e., Cyber-Physical Syste…