Towards Even-Smarter Factories: Advances in Sensor and Digital Technology Integration
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Sensors".
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Interests: smart sensors; IoT; digital twins; smart manufacturing; supply chains; modelling; simulation; systems thinking; sustainability; human-centric
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Interests: CMOS integrated circuits; low-power electronics; data acquisition; electric sensing devices; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit design; peripheral interfaces; wireless LAN; EPROM; Hall effect transducers; analogue-digital conversion
Interests: industrial blockchain; digital twin/cyber-physical system; smart manufacturing; wearable devices; Auto-ID, RFID and industrial sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in sensor and digital technologies like Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing and Big Data, among others, are transforming the manufacturing industry by enabling the so-called “smart factories”. Connected technology and data-driven factories and smart factories seek to adapt and respond to production challenges through enhanced and real-time monitoring, control, and the optimization of industrial processes.
The use of advanced miniaturized sensors (AMS) can offer substantial benefits over traditional systems. AMS small size enables easier installation in tight/small spaces or on moving parts, leading to improved or even enabled monitoring and control of previously inaccessible areas and processes. With increased accuracy and precision, AMS can also offer improved data collection capabilities, even in harsh industrial environments. Furthermore, AMS can be incorporated in greater numbers within manufacturing processes due to their lower cost.
By combining the increased diversity, amount, and quality of data provided by AMS with digital technologies, smart factories can be capable of superior decision-making through Big Data analytics, improved collaboration through Cloud Computing, and enhanced optimization through IoT-powered process monitoring and actuation. The result is “even-smarter” factories with the superior levels of efficiency, flexibility, innovativeness and responsiveness required in today’s highly competitive and unpredictable global market.
This Special Issue aims to publish original and visionary research works and review articles on advances in miniaturized sensor development and integration, including theoretical methods and algorithms, conceptual models, technologies, case studies, and industrial applications. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sensor applications in industrial automation;
- MEMS for industrial sensors;
- Smart manufacturing and industry;
- Industrial IoT sensors (IIoT sensors);
- Smart sensors/edge sensors;
- Sensors for machinery;
- Industry 5.0—sensor interaction/collaboration with humans.
Dr. Maria Valero Bernal
Prof. Dr. Nicolás Medrano
Dr. Ming Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart sensors
- sensors and sensing techniques
- smart manufacturing
- internet of things (IoT)
- industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- MEMS
- Industry 4.0
- Industry 5.0
- manufacturing systems
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