There is an increasing need for supply chains that can rapidly respond to fluctuating demands and can provide customised products. This supply chain design requires the development of flexibility as a critical capability. To this end, firms are consi...
The presented manuscript deals with the impact of manufacturing flexibility on cost-time investment as a function of sustainable production, which addresses the company’s sustainable social and environmental impact adequately. The impact of man...
Several high-tech manufacturing technologies are emerging to meet the demand for mass customized products. These technologies include configurable robots, augmented reality and the Internet-of-Things. Manufacturing enterprises can leverage these new...
In the context of slowing economic growth and increasing uncertainty, enhancing the financial flexibility of manufacturing enterprises is a critical foundation for promoting the high-quality development of the real economy. This study selects a sampl...
Background: This study examines how information technology (IT) capability contributes to manufacturing flexibility (MF) through knowledge acquisition (KA) and customer–supplier integration (CSI), drawing on dynamic capability theory. Methods:...
In this study, I investigate the relationships between information technology infrastructure flexibility (ITIF), big data analytics capability (BDAC), manufacturing agility (MA), and operational performance (OP) in Saudi manufacturing firms, while al...
Manufacturing flexibility is a widely accepted manufacturing strategy for mitigating the negative impacts of environmental uncertainty on firm performance and is also a required strategic attribute to acclimatize mass customization and agile manufact...
Improving responsiveness and efficiency in production systems requires an understanding of how manufacturing flexibility and inventory management interact under conditions of uncertainty. This study examines the combined effect of four types of flexi...
Market globalisation, shortened patent lifetimes and the ongoing shift towards personalised medicines exert unprecedented pressure on the pharmaceutical industry. In the push for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing, processes need to be shown to...
This paper presents the results of an empirical study investigating the relationship between Total quality management (TQM) practices, Just-in-time (JIT) production practices, and flexibility performance in manufacturing companies. Correlation and re...
Given the advancements in modern living standards and technological development, conventional smart devices have proven inadequate in meeting the demands for a high-quality lifestyle. Therefore, a revolution is necessary to overcome this impasse and...
Distributed manufacturing even at the household level is now well established with the combined use of open source designs and self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) 3-D printers. Previous work has shown substantial economic consumer benefits for...
Rapid shifts in consumer preferences have prompted enterprises to offer products in small quantities and various options. To meet market demands, enterprises must be able to research the development of modern conceptions of manufacturing systems whic...
The field of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) has seen in recent years a dynamic development trend and can now be considered an integral part of intelligent manufacturing systems and a basis for digital manufacturing. Developing the factory of th...
This paper provides a classification of manufacturing types in terms of new technological tools provided in the Industry 5.0 framework. The manufacturing types agile, holonic, flexible and reconfigurable benefit from and are potentially changed by In...
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are highly adaptable production systems capable of producing a wide range of products in varying quantities. While this flexibility caters to evolving market demands, it also introduces complex scheduling and cont...
Due to the high share of industry in total electricity consumption, industrial demand-side management can make a relevant contribution to the stability of power systems. At the same time, companies get the opportunity to reduce their electricity proc...
Because of their flexibility, controllability and convenience, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) have gradually gained popularity in intelligent manufacturing because to their adaptability, controllability, and simplicity. We examine the relationship b...
Highly flexible manufacturing systems require continuous run-time (self-) optimization of processes with respect to diverse parameters, e.g., efficiency, availability, energy consumption etc. A promising approach for achieving (self-) optimization in...
Having sustainable and flexible features is crucial for manufacturing companies considering the increasing competition in the globalized world. This study considers three aspects of sustainability, namely economic, social, and environmental factors,...
The study aims to design flexible manufacturing cells with routing flexibility. A weighted mixed-integer linear mathematical programming model that aims to find optimal routing of parts in flexible manufacturing cells under constraints such as minimu...
Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) provide a competitive edge in the ever-evolving manufacturing landscape, offering the agility to swiftly adapt to changing customer demands and product lifecycles. Nevertheless, the complex and interconnected nat...
Integrating sustainability, a flexible manufacturing system, and Industry 4.0 resolves the issues of fluctuating market demand arising from customization requirements. Modular products allow flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and optimize...
Industry 5.0 aims to integrate humans and machines to achieve greater productivity, personalization, and sustainable development in the production process. Built on the foundation of Industry 4.0 which emphasizes automation, digitalization, and intel...
All human activity is associated with the generation of electrical signals. These signals are collectively referred to as electrical physiology (EP) signals (e.g., electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, electromyography, electrooculography, etc.),...
Digitization and virtualization represent key factors in the era of Industry 4.0. Digital twins (DT) can certainly contribute to increasing the efficiency of various productive sectors as they can contribute to monitoring, managing, and improvement o...
In most cases, the system control is made in a sampled manner, measuring the controlled value at a predefined frequency given by the sampling time. However, not all processes provide relevant information at regular intervals, especially in manufactur...
Flexible n-type tungsten carbide/polylactic acid (WC/PLA) composites were fabricated by additive manufacturing and their thermoelectric properties were investigated. The preparation of an n-type polymer-based thermoelectric composite with good stabil...
In the last few decades, there has been a growing necessity for systems that handle market changes and personalized customer needs with near mass production efficiency, defined as the new mass customization paradigm. The Industry 5.0 vision further e...
Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) has emerged as a transformative paradigm at the intersection of Industry 4.0 and servitization, enabling flexible, sustainable, and intelligent production through on-demand provisioning of manufacturing resources. By...
A large component flexible manufacturing system provides more application scenarios for industrial robots, and, in turn, these robots exhibit competitive advantages in machining applications. However, the structural characteristic of low stiffness is...
In industry 4.0, all kinds of intelligent workstations are designed for use in manufacturing industries. Among them, flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) use smart robots to achieve their production capacity under the condition of a high degree of r...
The integration of electronics into the process flow of the additive manufacturing of 3D objects is demonstrated using water soluble films as a temporary flexible substrate. Three process variants are detailed to evaluate their capabilities to meet t...
As low-carbon and sustainable manufacturing becomes the mainstream development direction of the current manufacturing industry, the traditional heavy industry manufacturing enterprises in China urgently need to transform. For the heavy cement equipme...
Decentralized supervisory structure has drawn much attention in recent years to address the computational complexity in designing supervisory structures for large Petri net model. Many studies are reported in the paradigm of automata while few can be...
Autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) are driverless material handling systems used for transportation of pallets and line side supply of materials to provide flexibility and agility in shop-floor logistics. Scheduling of shop-floor logistics in such sys...
After the fourth industrial evolution, precision and automatic manufacturing have become increasingly widely accepted in production. With highly variable productivity and flexibility, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) lower production costs and in...
This article reviews the state of the art of prediction and optimization for sequence-driven scheduling in job shop flexible manufacturing systems (JS-FMSs). The objectives of the article are to (1) analyze the literature related to algorithms for se...
The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) plays an important role in production and processing in Smart Manufacturing Systems. Unlike the traditional Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP), the additional flexibility in machine selection enlarges th...
This paper proposes a fault-tolerant flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that features a dual-level fault tolerance mechanism at both the workcell and system levels to enhance reliability. The workcell controller was implemented on a Field Programmab...
The deadlock control problem in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) has received much attention in recent years. The formalism of the Petri net is employed to effectively model, analyze, and control deadlocks in an FMS case study. There are many ki...
New paradigms such as the Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), or industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) have been impacting the manufacturing environment in recent years. Nevertheless, these challenging concepts are also being...
Due to global challenges and disruptions—such as increasing energy costs and limited availability of resources and workforce—multi-objective production planning and scheduling has recently attracted significant attention from both academi...
The research presented in this paper aligns with the advancement of Industry 4.0 by integrating intelligent machine tools and industrial robots within Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). Primarily, a development approach for Digital Twin (DT) is pr...
In the domain of application of PN theory, the system deadlock problem of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a thorny problem that needs to be solved urgently. All the research has the same objective of designing optimal controllers with maxima...
Networks of sensors and actuators in automated manufacturing processes are implemented using industrial fieldbuses, where automation units and supervisory systems are also connected to exchange operational information. In the context of the incoming...
This article presents a performance evaluation of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS), in which the system and its components can have different performance levels ranging from perfect functioning to total failure. An original multistate transition...
This research article proposes a new method for an enhanced Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) using a combination of smart methods. These methods use a set of three technologies of Industry 4.0, namely Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twin (DT...
In this paper, a novel admissible estimate function is proposed to schedule flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) by using heuristic search. The FMSs to be scheduled are modeled by P-timed Petri nets. The problem is to make the system evolve from the...
The emergence of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) presents new challenges in Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments. Unlike traditional real-time systems, FMS must accommodate task set variability driven by human–machine interaction. As such va...
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