In an era marked by digital transformation and political polarization, the European Union faces significant challenges in maintaining effective communication and public trust. This study examines the European Parliament’s use of Threads and X (former...
This paper provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art digital twin and digital thread technology in industrial operations. Both are transformational technologies that have the advantage of improving the efficiency of current design and manu...
The digital thread, as a crucial technology for industrial digitization and the realization of smart manufacturing, has garnered extensive attention and research in recent years. Furthermore, there is a growing interest in the key technologies suppor...
This article discusses ongoing research investigating the feasibility of supporting an interoperability and integration framework to enable the digital thread, or an authoritative source of truth with current technology. The question that initiated t...
This paper provides a detailed review of a digital thread for composite aerospace components. The current state of the digital thread continues to progress and at an ever-accelerating rate due to advancements in supporting technologies such as AI, da...
Cross-organizational collaboration in digital manufacturing systems is often hindered by fragmented data handoff, inconsistent versions, and delayed downstream collaboration across lifecycle stages and heterogeneous systems. To address this issue, a...
In this modern era, the constant increase in computational and sensing power has lead to the development of multiple data-driven concepts. Amongst these, the ‘digital thread’ is an architecture that aims at optimising the knowledge of a s...
Additive manufacturing (AM) opens the vision of decentralised and individualised manufacturing, as a tailored product can be manufactured in proximity to the customers with minimal physical infrastructure required. Consequently, the digital infrastru...
In the current data-driven era, effective data sharing is set to unlock billions in value for aerospace and complex manufacturing and their supply chains by enhancing product quality, boosting manufacturing and operational efficiency, and generating...
This study develops a digital-thread framework for predictive assessment of digital transformation in heavy equipment manufacturing and evaluates it through resource-constrained discrete-event simulation (DES) of the VFP-1600 route. The model represe...
A model-based approach to large-scale distributed system architecting is suggested, which is based on the use of dynamic digital twins. This approach can be considered as an integration of known paradigms, such as digital twins, evolutionary architec...
Safety is the most critical asset in the aerospace industry, and emerging technology domains like hybrid-electric distribution systems present new challenges. In this context, digitalization plays a crucial role in analyzing and managing different sa...
Digital twins have gained a lot of interest in recent years. This paper presents a survey among researchers and engineers with expertise in variation management confirming the interest of digital twins in this area. The survey shows, however, a gap b...
This article discusses an approach to the development of large-scale cognitive cyber-physical systems characterized by a high level of structural, functional and architectural dynamics. The main idea of the proposed approach is the use of several mod...
Screw piles are widely used in infrastructure, such as railways, highways, and ports, etc., owing to their large pile resistance compared to unthreaded piles. While most screw pile research focuses on single pile behavior under rotational installatio...
Digital twins are increasingly being considered as an enabling technology for data-driven decision-making in regulated aviation maintenance and operations. However, many digital twin implementations are data-led rather than requirement-led. Without a...
In the last decade, Australian SMEs are steadily becoming more digitally engaged, but they still face issues and barriers to fully adopt Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Among the tools that I4.0 encompasses, digital twin (DT) and digital thread (DTH) technologi...
This paper presents a novel framework addressing the fundamental challenge of concurrent real-time audio acquisition and motor control in resource-constrained mobile robotics. The ESP32-based system integrates a digital MEMS microphone with rover mob...
Owing to the dispersed and data-driven nature of additive manufacturing (AM), various new cybersecurity-related threats have emerged regarding digital file transfer, data trustworthiness, intellectual property (IP) protection, and traceability. The i...
Traditional MBSE faces challenges in verifying the dynamic performance of autonomous systems due to a semantic gap between static architecture and executable algorithms. To address this limitation, this study proposes a system-of-systems (SoS) modeli...
Advanced manufacturing is undergoing a profound transformation, with data quickly becoming its most strategic asset. The industry is pushing toward Industry 4.0 with its sights already on the human-centric Industry 5.0. Manufacturing firms are rapidl...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can accelerate the production of digital teaching materials, but long-term use also requires provenance, reproducibility, and maintainable resource workflows. In a single-account 30-day longitudinal case stu...
As the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere increases, the concerns about carbon emissions are growing. Several net-zero initiatives are taking place around the globe to achieve a balance between the GHGs put into the atmosphere...
Digital twin, a concept introduced in 2002, is becoming increasingly relevant to systems engineering and, more specifically, to model-based system engineering (MBSE). A digital twin, like a virtual prototype, is a dynamic digital representation of a...
The transition towards a Circular Economy (CE) has been receiving an increasing amount of attention in the built asset industry. One of the key aspects of CE is traceability, which can enable the identification and tracking of materials, products, an...
This article examines how digital twins have been used in a multi-national corporation, what technologies have been used, what benefits have been delivered, and the significance of people- and process-related issues in achieving successful implementa...
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is document-centered in many organizations: project charters, control plans, measurements, analyses, approvals, and verification records are maintained as separate files whose consistency depends on manual reconciliation. This pa...
We report new classes of wearable sensors that monitor touch between fully-abled and disabled players in order to empower collaborative digital gaming between the two. Our approach relies on embroidered force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) embedded into...
For the next coming years, metaverse, digital twin and autonomous vehicle applications are the leading technologies for many complex applications hitherto inaccessible such as health and life sciences, smart home, smart agriculture, smart city, smart...
Software development cycles in the context of IoT! (IoT!) applications require the orchestration of different technological layers, and involve complex technical challenges. The engineering team needs to become experts in these technologies and time...
The Veil of Manoppello is an icon of the face of Christ (Holy Face). Its particular characteristic is being semitransparent. The face is visible on both sides (front–back) and, depending on the lighting and observation conditions, shows some di...
An implant’s thread design plays a key role in enhancing primary stability by optimising the distribution of loading forces and biomechanical structural interlocking. An increase in bone-to-implant contact (BIC) surface availability affects oss...
The development of Industry 4.0 has accelerated the adoption of sophisticated technologies, including Digital Twins (DTs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity, within Additive Manufacturing (AM). Enabling real-time monitoring, process opt...
The digital twinning concept stands as a remarkable opportunity to integrate sophisticated mathematical models within the context of existing manufacturing systems. Such models may provide shipyard management with predictive analytics, improving the...
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In this study, stability evaluation is performed through structural analysis based on digital dental implant design variables. The design variables include the implant length and thickness, cortical bone thickness, and elastic modulus of the cancello...
In contemporary scientific disciplines, there is an increasing interest in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) as a cornerstone of data-driven intelligence (DDI). While DDI has not yet been fully integrated into architectural design, AI has already...
Digital manufacturing aims to make manufacturing more productive, resilient, and competitive by improving production efficiency and enhancing product quality. To achieve this, this paper proposes a novel digital twin framework for representing comple...
Innovative technologies allow organizations to remain competitive in the market and increase their profitability. These driving factors have led to the adoption of several emerging technologies and no other trend has created more of an impact than In...
Analytical systems based on isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) paired with electroanalytical detection enable cost-effective, sensitive, and specific digital pathogen detection for various in situ applications such as point-of-care m...
This paper deals with the coefficient of determination of screw connection friction between the thread and the matrix. The coefficient of friction was measured using a laboratory device with an M20 screw connection without any grease and, subsequentl...
This study explores the relationship between digital access, protection, and adoption in supporting technological entrepreneurship within national digital ecosystems. The study utilised PROCESS regression analysis on the Global Entrepreneurship Devel...
Threaded connections are fundamental in engineering structures, yet their elastic–plastic behavior under load remains challenging to model analytically. The yield limit can be reached under relatively small external loads, and elastic–pla...
Circularity is clearly a competitive advantage and a market opportunity for European industries. From this perspective, while digitalization is largely recognized as an accelerator and an enabler of Circular Economy, the fact that European industry i...
The paper presents the possibility of using the Kinect v2 module to control an industrial robot by means of gestures and voice commands. It describes the elements of creating software for off-line and on-line robot control. The application for the Ki...
The present work studies the effect of three insect-proof screens with different geometrical and aerodynamic characteristics on the air velocity and temperature inside a Mediterranean multi-span greenhouse with three roof vents and without crops, div...
This paper details the possibility of simulating HELICOIL® inserts using Finite Element Analysis and contact technology. The main procedure is based on the use of contact elements in the Glue–Cohesive setting, which is usually considered fo...
Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is widely used in digital elevation model (DEM) generation. However, the very large volume of LiDAR datasets brings a great challenge for the traditional serial algorithm. Using parallel computing to accel...
In this second work on the Holy Face of Manoppello, known also as the Veil, we have performed a spectral analysis of the transmitted image. Its thin linen threads are translucent, presumably because starched, allowing light to pass through them. As a...
Smartphones, digital cameras, and other imaging devices generate vast amounts of high-resolution colored images daily, stored on devices equipped with multi-core central processing units or on the cloud. Safeguarding these images from potential attac...
Product disassembly, critical in remanufacturing, often involves removing screws and bolts, which can be challenging due to degradation, such as rust or thread damage. Here, we develop a digital twin integrated with a Model Predictive Controller to o...
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