Cyber–Physical Systems toward Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 3838
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptive intelligent systems; sensor networks; industry 4.0
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A cyber–physical system (CPS), also recognized as an intelligent system, is a computer-supported system in which one or more processes are controlled or monitored by computer algorithms. The physical and software components are deeply intertwined in this type of system. CPS is transdisciplinary, i.e., it combines theories from mechatronics, cybernetics, engineering, and process science. CPS is also similar to the Internet of Things (IoT) as it uses the same basic architecture, but CPS shows a greater combination and coordination between physical and computational elements.
Examples of CPS include autonomous automobile systems, smart grid, industrial control systems, medical monitoring, automatic pilot avionics, and robotics systems.
The existence of a CPS is an important prerequisite of the development of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing systems.
Industry 4.0 systems are merging many—even very different—technologies into one system, and this integration process very often starts with CPS. Sustainability issues often arise during this process, such as synergies, long-term operability and upgradeability, operation, return on investment, energy efficiency, recyclability, and scrap.
Topics and themes of this Special Issue can include, but are not limited to:
- Using CPS in different processes
- Harmonization of different CPS solutions (integrated into Industry 4.0)
- Challenges and responses to using CPS
- Technologies that CPS can use
- Benefits and savings (cost, energy, etc.) from using CPS
- Data-driven maintenance based on CPS
- Digital challenges, questions and answers on CPS
- Sustainability issues related to CPS
- Big Data solutions for CPS systems
- Intelligent decision support systems in CPS for sustainability
- Role of competences for successful adoption and implementation of CPS
- IoT solutions in CPS
- Risk-based approaches in CPS
- Energy efficiency improvement based on CPS
- Real-time measurements in CPS
- AI-based intelligent solutions based on CPS
Dr. Szilárd Jaskó
Dr. Tamás Schné
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyber–physical system (CPS)
- industry 4.0
- sustainability
- smart manufacturing
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