Manufacturing environments, characterized by dynamic changes and uncertainties, demand effective strategies to minimize disruptions. This study introduces an innovative approach that integrates engineering management principles with modular design to...
Small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) face intense competitiveness, necessitating ever greater productivity. Enterprises struggle to meet the demand for customized products while maintaining their productivity. The transition from...
The growing demand for sustainable and efficient construction practices has led to an increased interest in modular construction, with design for manufacture and assembly emerging as a pivotal approach. Despite its potential, the integration of desig...
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...
The European vision of the Factory of the Future is based on increasing competition and sustainability by transformation from cost orientation to high-adding value with technical and organisational innovations. One of the expected outcomes is an incr...
Mass customization is widely recognized as a strategic lever enabling manufacturing firms to respond to increasing diversity in customer needs. However, its operationalization remains particularly challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (S...
Route planning in a multi-agent system (MAS) is still a complex task, especially if there is need for a continuous, decentralized planner of the routes for physical agents in a dynamic environment. It is a planner of this kind that is required in the...
This study presents the development and first manufacturing realization of the ECOTIRE concept, a modular and sustainable tire system featuring a removable tread mechanically interlocked with a reusable casing. The concept aims to reduce rubber waste...
Despite their excellent torsional and bending strength, the economical production of hypotrochoidal profiles (H-profiles) remains an obstacle to their use. Due to the tool clearance angle, the commercially available twin-spindle turning process has l...
In principle, modular or integral character of manufacturing lines depends on the topological designs of products and determined operation tasks. On the other hand, in specific situations there is an articulated need for modular design in smart manuf...
Modular construction is emerging into the limelight in the construction industry as one of the front-running modern methods of construction, facilitating multiple benefits, including improved productivity. Meanwhile, Circular Economy (CE) principles...
As mass customization becomes more pervasive in many sectors, researchers need to update traditional approaches to the optimization of critical performance and design parameters in order to help companies in their effort to implement this strategy. I...
According to the UNHCR, 117.2 million people have been displaced in 2023, with the rate and scale of displacement surpassing the resources available to assist those impacted. Modular construction is favored over traditional methods to meet the urgent...
Utility disruptions may stem from insufficient power generation, inferior infrastructure, or secondary weather perils (e.g., tornadoes, floods, snowstorms) that take energy infrastructure offline. The latter present a unique risk that not all existin...
This paper explores the notion of the modular building construction site as an applied instance of redistributed manufacturing; in so doing, this research seeks to reduce the environmental footprint of building sites, treating them as small digitally...
In the present paper, a manufacturing cell in the presence of faults, coming from the devices of the process, is considered. The modular modeling of the subsystems of the cell is accomplished using of appropriate finite deterministic automata. The de...
This paper presents the manufacturing challenges of a transverse flux alternator for an aerospace application. For fault tolerance, four independent isolated phases are required to deliver a specific power at low speeds, whilst at over speed, there i...
This paper presents a modular and distributed supervisory control integration framework for intelligent micro-manufacturing systems (MMSs) under event-level failures. Addressing the increasing demand for scalable and reliable supervisory control in b...
This work explores an additive-manufacturing-enabled combination-of-function approach for design of modular products. AM technologies allow the design and manufacturing of nearly free-form geometry, which can be used to create more complex, multi-fun...
With the advancement of building industrialization and sustainable development, modular demountable buildings, as an efficient and environmentally friendly form, show significant potential in scenarios such as emergency housing and rural construction...
The objective was to propose a human–robot bidirectional trust-triggered cyber–physical–human (CPH) system framework for human–robot collaborative assembly in flexible manufacturing and investigate the impact of modulating com...
Quebec’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing field are facing a major challenge: implementing a successful digital transformation in an increasingly competitive world, with a labor shortage and customer demand for hi...
Modular self-configurable robot (MSR) systems have been investigated for decades, and their applications have been widely explored to meet emerging automation needs in various applications, such as space exploration, manufacturing, defense, medical i...
As a new service-oriented manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) realizes the optimal allocation of resources in the product manufacturing process through the network. Task decomposition is a key problem of the CMfg system for resource sc...
Off-site construction has been increasingly employed due to its advantages, for instance, improved quality control, reduced skills labour, faster construction time, decreased material wastage and safe working environment. As the most cutting-edge off...
Modular construction requires a comprehensive assessment of the quality of design solutions, taking into account interconnected architectural, production, logistical, and digital factors at all stages of the lifecycle. Existing approaches, including...
We explored the moderating impacts of product modularity and supply chain visibility for sustainability and operational initiatives, which entails a dramatic rethinking and reorganization of the production processes of manufacturing enterprises. Mode...
The increasing number of end-of-life (EOL) products has raised new challenges for sustainable manufacturing, especially when recycling efficiency, structural modularity and worker well-being must be considered simultaneously. From the perspective of...
This paper presents a novel modular assembly concept for large-volume Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) hydrogen tanks, supporting the aviation sector’s transition toward sustainable propulsion. Adhering to VDI 2221 and 2222 design method...
The advent of digital technologies, increasing competition, market globalization, and the fourth industrial revolution compel organizations to rethink their operating models to sustain competitive advantage. At the same time, increasingly informed co...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic sustainability implications of reconfigurable modularization and changeability in semi-automatic assembly systems using a system dynamics perspective. Through our applied research, using a mult...
Circular economy (CE) is an emergent concept that promotes resource circularity in multiple product systems. Modular construction (MC), an evolving construction technique, which includes an off-site manufacturing environment, increasingly supports CE...
Parts with complex geometry have been divided into multiple parts due to manufacturing constraints of conventional manufacturing. However, since additive manufacturing (AM) is able to fabricate 3D objects in a layer-by-layer manner, design for AM has...
Animal telemetry is a subject of great potential and scientific interest, but it shows design-dependent problems related to price, flexibility and customization, autonomy, integration of elements, and structural design. The objective of this paper is...
Solid-propellant rockets are used for many applications, including military technology, scientific research, entertainment, and aerospace education. This study explores a novel method for design modularization of the rocket airframes, utilizing addit...
We present a novel E-textiles toolkit that can be used in the rapid prototyping of electronic textiles during the research and evaluation phase. The modular, Arduino-compatible toolkit incorporates various sensors and control and communication module...
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) are extensively studied and employed to address demand uncertainties. RMS machines are designed to be modular and adaptable to changing requirements. A recent innovation is the introduction of multi-spindle...
Innovative biologics, including cell therapeutics, virus-like particles, exosomes, recombinant proteins, and peptides, seem likely to substitute monoclonal antibodies as the main therapeutic entities in manufacturing over the next decades. This molec...
Manufacturing enterprises implementing Industry 4.0 technologies face significant challenges in integrating heterogeneous maintenance data sources and deploying AI solutions effectively. While various AI methods exist for predictive maintenance, the...
This Review initiates a wide-ranging discussion over 2023 by selecting and exploring core themes to be investigated more deeply in papers submitted to the Vaccines Special Issue on the “Future of Epidemic and Pandemic Vaccines to Serve Global P...
Currently, the global construction industry is facing challenges of stagnant efficiency and cost overruns. The potential of modular construction has not been fully unleashed due to the disconnection between design and manufacturing. This paper propos...
Continuous progress in the sector of additive manufacturing has drastically aided the design and fabrication of urban furniture, offering high levels of customization and adaptability. This work looks into the potential of 3D printing to transform ur...
To achieve efficient personalized production at an affordable cost, a modular manufacturing system (MMS) can be utilized. MMS enables restructuring of its configuration to accommodate product changes and is thus an efficient solution to reduce the co...
The intricate structure of human hands requires personalized orthotic treatments, especially with the growing aging population’s demand for accessible care. While traditional orthoses are effective, they face challenges of cost, customization t...
The emergence of new information technologies, market globalization, climate change, labor shortages, and changing consumer habits have led to dynamic demand and the need for customized mass production systems. This has forced companies, especially s...
This paper presents a novel approach to developing fully automated intelligent control systems for use within production-based organizations, with a specific focus on advancing research into intelligent production systems. This analysis underscores a...
Individuals with atypical breast shape/size often find it quite challenging to obtain a comfortable, supportive, and fitted bra off-the-shelf. They include people with very large breasts, who have significant breast asymmetry, and/or have undergone m...
As the global energy transition accelerates toward low-emission and sustainable industrial energy systems, green hydrogen produced from renewable sources has emerged as a promising alternative to natural gas in energy-intensive sectors. This study pr...
The increasing complexity of cyber–physical manufacturing systems demands simulation architectures that scale with the physical plant without a proportional growth in engineering effort. This paper introduces a formal, symmetry-based framework...
Consumer willingness to purchase prefabricated modular houses has not kept pace with the industry’s progress, while cross-regional research on its determinants remains fragmented. This shortfall reflects not only consumer perceptions but also c...
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