Systems Engineering: Availability and Reliability
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 59028
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industry 4.0; maintenance; production engineering; systems reliability; lean maintenance; decision support systems; artificial inteligence; machine learning
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Interests: cyber-physical systems; dependable controllers for dependable mechatronic systems; mechatronic systems design for medical/biomedical applications, wellbeing and/or rehabilitation
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Interests: reliability; maintenance; predictions; production systems; data mining; expert systems; Industrial Internet of Things
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Interests: collaborative robotics; nonlinear finite elements simulation; manufacturing systems modelling; machine learning
Interests: the modeling and control of processes; biomedical systems; systems automation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current trends in Industry 4.0 are largely related to issues of reliability and availability. As a result of these trends and engineering systems’ complexity, research and development needs now refer to new solutions in the integration of intelligent machines or systems, with emphasis on changes in production processes aimed at increasing production efficiency or equipment reliability. The emergence of innovative technologies and new business models based on innovation, cooperation networks, and the enhancement of endogenous resources is assumed to be a strong contribution to the development of competitive economies all around the world. Innovation and engineering, focused on sustainability, reliability, and availability of resources, have a key role in this context. The scope of this Special Issue is closely associated to that of the ICIE’2020 conference. This conference and journal’s Special Issue is to present current innovations and engineering achievements of top world scientists and industrial practitioners in the thematic areas described above.
Proposed topics of the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Smart factories and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), machine to machine communication (M2M);
- Data mining and Big Datal
- Digitalization and virtual reality, robotics;
- Systems analysis, simulation, design, and modeling;
- Real time production scheduling;
- Production systems management and maintenance;
- Software tools for production and maintenance;
- Knowledge management and decision support systems in production;
- Artificial Intelligence methods in decision support systems;
- Predictive maintenance;
- Maintenance planning and scheduling;
- Reliability and risk assessment.
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Antosz
Prof. Dr. José Machado
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Mazurkiewicz
Prof. Dr. Dario Antonelli
Prof. Dr. Filomena Soares
Guest Editors
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