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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,729 Views
25 Pages

14 September 2021

Intelligent manufacturing is the trend of the steel industry. A cyber-physical system oriented steel production scheduling system framework is proposed. To make up for the difficulty of dynamic scheduling of steel production in a complex environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,677 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2021

In response to the lack of a unified cyber–physical system framework, which combined the Internet of Things, industrial big data, and deep learning algorithms for the condition monitoring of critical transmission components in a smart production line...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,631 Views
24 Pages

18 August 2021

Digital transformation and artificial intelligence are creating an opportunity for innovation across all levels of industry and are transforming the world of work by enabling factories to embrace cutting edge Information Technologies (ITs) into their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,243 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2023

Anomaly detection is essential for realizing modern and secure cyber-physical production systems. By detecting anomalies, there is the possibility to recognize, react early, and in the best case, fix the anomaly to prevent the rise or the carryover o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,275 Views
16 Pages

A Cyber–Physical Production System for the Integrated Operation and Monitoring of a Continuous Manufacturing Train for the Production of Monoclonal Antibodies

  • Garima Thakur,
  • Saxena Nikita,
  • Vinesh Balakrishnan Yezhuvath,
  • Venkata Sudheendra Buddhiraju and
  • Anurag S. Rathore

The continuous manufacturing of biologics offers significant advantages in terms of reducing manufacturing costs and increasing capacity, but it is not yet widely implemented by the industry due to major challenges in the automation, scheduling, proc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
189 Citations
9,502 Views
15 Pages

Sustainable Cyber-Physical Production Systems in Big Data-Driven Smart Urban Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Mihai Andronie,
  • George Lăzăroiu,
  • Mariana Iatagan,
  • Iulian Hurloiu and
  • Irina Dijmărescu

14 January 2021

In this article, we cumulate previous research findings indicating that cyber-physical production systems bring about operations shaping social sustainability performance technologically. We contribute to the literature on sustainable cyber-physical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,146 Views
33 Pages

20 August 2019

Due to the shift from mainly manual labor to an increased portion of cognitive tasks in manufacturing caused by the introduction of cyber-physical systems, there is a need for an updated collection of adequate design principles for user interfaces be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
223 Citations
17,910 Views
24 Pages

14 October 2021

With growing evidence of deep learning-assisted smart process planning, there is an essential demand for comprehending whether cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) are adequate in managing complexity and flexibility, configuring the smart factor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,500 Views
23 Pages

In the vision of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, it is vital to automate production processes. There is a significant gap in current practices, where the derivation of production processes from product data still heavily relies on human experti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
105 Citations
13,949 Views
14 Pages

A Deep Learning Model for Predictive Maintenance in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Using LSTM Autoencoders

  • Xanthi Bampoula,
  • Georgios Siaterlis,
  • Nikolaos Nikolakis and
  • Kosmas Alexopoulos

1 February 2021

Condition monitoring of industrial equipment, combined with machine learning algorithms, may significantly improve maintenance activities on modern cyber-physical production systems. However, data of proper quality and of adequate quantity, modeling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,841 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2023

The material extrusion 3D printing process known as fused deposition modeling (FDM) has recently gained relevance in the additive manufacturing industry for large-scale part production. However, improving the real-time monitoring of the process in te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,445 Views
30 Pages

19 May 2022

The complex workflows and interactions between heterogeneous entities in Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) call for the use of context-aware computing technology to operate effectively and meet the order requirements in a timely manner. In add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,372 Views
18 Pages

Systematic Development of Sustainability-Oriented Cyber-Physical Production Systems

  • Christopher Rogall,
  • Mark Mennenga,
  • Christoph Herrmann and
  • Sebastian Thiede

11 February 2022

Manufacturing companies increasingly have to address the risks and contributions related to their environmental impacts. Therefore, more data are needed in order to provide full transparency with regard to production, and to highlight the potential r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,978 Views
36 Pages

In traditional production plants, current technologies do not provide sufficient context to support information integration and interpretation. Digital transformation technologies have the potential to support contextualization, but it is unclear how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Citations
12,497 Views
17 Pages

4 May 2018

The prediction of internal defects of metal casting immediately after the casting process saves unnecessary time and money by reducing the amount of inputs into the next stage, such as the machining process, and enables flexible scheduling. Cyber-phy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,422 Views
37 Pages

5 November 2022

Widely available real-time data from the sensors of IoT infrastructure enables and increases the adoption and use of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) to provide enterprise-wide status information to promptly respond to business opportunities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
19 Pages

23 October 2025

Various types of anomalies can arise in cyber–physical production systems, caused by either faulty devices or incorrect processes. Anomalies within individual devices can often be detected by applying machine learning techniques to the respecti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
159 Citations
8,832 Views
23 Pages

Sustainable, Smart, and Sensing Technologies for Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Mihai Andronie,
  • George Lăzăroiu,
  • Roxana Ștefănescu,
  • Cristian Uță and
  • Irina Dijmărescu

14 May 2021

With growing evidence of the operational performance of cyber-physical manufacturing systems, there is a pivotal need for comprehending sustainable, smart, and sensing technologies underpinning data-driven decision-making processes. In this research,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,426 Views
9 Pages

23 January 2024

This study synthesizes a model of the main engineering and production chains in the Smart factory of Industry 4.0. This study has three main stages: an overview of the main definitions of the concepts “engineering and production chain” an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,084 Views
30 Pages

22 November 2019

Currently, enhancing sustainability, and in particular reducing energy consumption, is a huge challenge for manufacturing enterprises. The vision of the fourth industrial revolution (so-called “industry 4.0”) is not only to optimize produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,649 Views
20 Pages

A CPS-Based Simulation Platform for Long Production Factories

  • Vincenzo Iannino,
  • Valentina Colla,
  • Joachim Denker and
  • Marc Göttsche

21 September 2019

Production technology in European steel industry has reached such a level, that significant improvements can only be reached by through process optimization strategies instead of separately improving each process step. Therefore, the connection of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,132 Views
20 Pages

28 October 2022

Smart factories are complex; with the increased complexity of employed cyber-physical systems, the complexity evolves further. Cyber-physical systems produce high amounts of data that are hard to capture and challenging to analyze. Real-time recordin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,830 Views
26 Pages

Modern society is living at a time of revolutionary changes in all areas of human life. For example, the field of industrial manufacturing has greatly influenced the role of human beings during the past 30 years. Modern manufacturing systems are in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,535 Views
15 Pages

UML-Based Cyber-Physical Production Systems on Low-Cost Devices under IEC-61499

  • Carlos A. García,
  • Exteban X. Castellanos and
  • Marcelo V. García

Current industry must improve the day-to-day control and industrial communications of its processes in order to bring itself closer to the Industry 4.0 paradigm. To attain these improvements, which aim towards obtaining agile and intelligent manufact...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,893 Views
42 Pages

28 November 2022

Cyber-physical systems become more complex, therewith production lines become more complex in the smart factory. Every employed system produces high amounts of data with unknown dependencies and relationships, making incident reasoning difficult. Con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,490 Views
15 Pages

Manufacturing processes can be cited as significant research areas when examining infrastructure systems and infrastructure, as they are inextricably linked to both. Examples include automobile manufacturing, the production of traffic signs, etc. Con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,503 Views
20 Pages

A PetriNet-Based Approach for Supporting Traceability in Cyber-Physical Manufacturing Systems

  • Jiwei Huang,
  • Yeping Zhu,
  • Bo Cheng,
  • Chuang Lin and
  • Junliang Chen

17 March 2016

With the growing popularity of complex dynamic activities in manufacturing processes, traceability of the entire life of every product has drawn significant attention especially for food, clinical materials, and similar items. This paper studies the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,949 Views
21 Pages

Defense Strategies for Asymmetric Networked Systems with Discrete Components

  • Nageswara S. V. Rao,
  • Chris Y. T. Ma,
  • Kjell Hausken,
  • Fei He,
  • David K. Y. Yau and
  • Jun Zhuang

3 May 2018

We consider infrastructures consisting of a network of systems, each composed of discrete components. The network provides the vital connectivity between the systems and hence plays a critical, asymmetric role in the infrastructure operations. The in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,442 Views
16 Pages

M2M Security Technology of CPS Based on Blockchains

  • Shiyong Yin,
  • Jinsong Bao,
  • Yiming Zhang and
  • Xiaodi Huang

14 September 2017

As the core of intelligent manufacturing, cyber-physical systems (CPS) have serious security issues, especially for the communication security of their terminal machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. In this paper, blockchain technology is introduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,388 Views
16 Pages

Research and Implementation of CPS for Transmission Front Middle Case Assembly Line

  • Dianping Zhang,
  • Xianfeng Cao,
  • Zengzhi Jin,
  • Yahui Zhang,
  • Xiaofeng Hu and
  • Chuanxun Wu

11 May 2023

As an indispensable part of the automobile factory transmission system, the transmission assembly line has a high level of automation and can play as a pioneer in the digital transformation of production. However, for the transmission production proc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,758 Views
11 Pages

25 January 2021

Much research is done on data analytics and machine learning for data coming from industrial processes. In practical approaches, one finds many pitfalls restraining the application of these modern technologies especially in brownfield applications. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,383 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2017

Handling uncertainty in an appropriate manner during the real operation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) is critical. Uncertain production scheduling as a part of CPS uncertainty issues should attract more attention. In this paper, a Mixed Integer No...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,882 Views
25 Pages

Pointed at a problem that leads to the high complexity of the production management tasks in the multi-stage spinning industry, mixed flow batch production is often the case in response to a customer’s personalized demands. Manual handling cans...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,953 Views
15 Pages

Social Dimensions in CPS & IoT Based Automated Production Systems

  • Hind Bril El-Haouzi,
  • Etienne Valette,
  • Bettina-Johanna Krings and
  • António Brandão Moniz

12 August 2021

Since the 1970s, the application of microprocessor in industrial machinery and the development of computer systems have transformed the manufacturing landscape. The rapid integration and automation of production systems have outpaced the development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,620 Views
18 Pages

Online Machine Learning and Surrogate-Model-Based Optimization for Improved Production Processes Using a Cognitive Architecture

  • Alexander Hinterleitner,
  • Richard Schulz,
  • Lukas Hans,
  • Aleksandr Subbotin,
  • Nils Barthel,
  • Noah Pütz,
  • Martin Rosellen,
  • Thomas Bartz-Beielstein,
  • Christoph Geng and
  • Phillip Priss

20 October 2023

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) play an essential role in today’s production processes, leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance operations such as optimization, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance. This article reviews a cogni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,609 Views
21 Pages

A Connective Framework for Social Collaborative Robotic System

  • Syed Osama Bin Islam and
  • Waqas Akbar Lughmani

17 November 2022

Social intelligence in robotics appeared quite recently in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. It is becoming increasingly evident that social and interaction skills are essentially required in any application where robots need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
925 Views
27 Pages

Toward the Theoretical Foundations of Industry 6.0: A Framework for AI-Driven Decentralized Manufacturing Control

  • Andrés Fernández-Miguel,
  • Susana Ortíz-Marcos,
  • Mariano Jiménez-Calzado,
  • Alfonso P. Fernández del Hoyo,
  • Fernando E. García-Muiña and
  • Davide Settembre-Blundo

3 October 2025

This study advances toward establishing the theoretical foundations of Industry 6.0 by developing a comprehensive framework that integrates artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized control systems, and cyber–physical production environments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,687 Views
14 Pages

Service-Oriented Real-Time Smart Job Shop Symmetric CPS Based on Edge Computing

  • Chuang Wang,
  • Yi Lv,
  • Qiang Wang,
  • Dongyu Yang and
  • Guanghui Zhou

1 October 2021

Symmetry is one of the most important notions in the digital twins-driven manufacturing cyber–physical system (CPS). Real-time acquisition of production data and rapid response to changes in the external environment are the keys to ensuring the symme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,913 Views
15 Pages

Digital Twins Collaboration for Automatic Erratic Operational Data Detection in Industry 4.0

  • Radhya Sahal,
  • Saeed H. Alsamhi,
  • John G. Breslin,
  • Kenneth N. Brown and
  • Muhammad Intizar Ali

2 April 2021

Digital twin (DT) plays a pivotal role in the vision of Industry 4.0. The idea is that the real product and its virtual counterpart are twins that travel a parallel journey from design and development to production and service life. The intelligence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,308 Views
22 Pages

9 September 2019

In order to efficiently transform business processes (such as product design, product engineering, production, logistics, sales, deliveries, etc.) into digitally automated processes, new concepts have been introduced in both the manufacturing and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
12,985 Views
22 Pages

28 June 2017

In the context of Industry 4.0, the demand for the mass production of highly customized products will lead to complex products and an increasing demand for production system flexibility. Simply implementing lean production-based human-centered produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,340 Views
28 Pages

21 December 2021

The autonomous and adaptable identification of anomalies in industrial contexts, particularly in the physical processes of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), requires using critical technologies to identify failures correctly. Most of the exis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,389 Views
23 Pages

Need for UAI–Anatomy of the Paradigm of Usable Artificial Intelligence for Domain-Specific AI Applicability

  • Hajo Wiemer,
  • Dorothea Schneider,
  • Valentin Lang,
  • Felix Conrad,
  • Mauritz Mälzer,
  • Eugen Boos,
  • Kim Feldhoff,
  • Lucas Drowatzky and
  • Steffen Ihlenfeldt

Data-driven methods based on artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful yet flexible tools for gathering knowledge and automating complex tasks in many areas of science and practice. Despite the rapid development of the field, the existing potential o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,639 Views
22 Pages

11 April 2023

Characterized by its resilience, connectivity, and real-time data processing capabilities, the fourth industrial revolution, referred to as Industry 4.0, is the main driver of today’s digital transformation. It is crucially important for manufa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,108 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2024

The convergence of cyber and physical systems through cyber–physical systems (CPSs) has been integrated into cyber–physical production systems (CPPSs), leading to a paradigm shift toward intelligent manufacturing. Despite the transformati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,970 Views
37 Pages

20 January 2025

This paper deals with a “digital twin” (DT) approach for processing, reprocessing, and scrapping (P/R/S) technology running on a modular production system (MPS) assisted by a mobile cyber–physical robotic system (MCPRS). The main ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,585 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2024

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) offer significant potential to address the evolving demands of industrial development. In the Industry 4.0 era, a framework integrating sensing, data exchange, numerical analysis, and real-time feedback is essential for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,380 Views
16 Pages

29 October 2020

With the increasing complexities, such as massive computing devices and strict requirements for collaboration, of industrial production systems, the concept of the cyber-physical production system (CPPS) is considered as a promising approach for addr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,595 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2024

One of the goals of developing and implementing Industry 4.0 solutions is to significantly increase the level of flexibility and autonomy of production systems. It is intended to provide the possibility of self-reconfiguration of systems to create mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,800 Views
21 Pages

QHAR: Q-Holonic-Based ARchitecture for Self-Configuration of Cyber–Physical Production Systems

  • Douha Macherki,
  • Thierno M. L. Diallo,
  • Jean-Yves Choley,
  • Amir Guizani,
  • Maher Barkallah and
  • Mohamed Haddar

28 September 2021

Production systems must be able to adapt to increasingly frequent internal and external changes. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), thanks to their potential capacity for self-reconfiguration, can cope with this need for adaptation. To impleme...

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