scholarly journals Special issue on future digital design and manufacturing: Embracing industry 4.0 and beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengfeng Qin ◽  
Kai Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Design And Manufacturing

scholarly journals Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 5975
Author(s):  
Ana María Camacho ◽  
Eva María Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Manufacturing Automation ◽  
Engineering Society ◽  
Manufacturing Engineering ◽  
Lifecycle Management

The Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2020 (SIMES-2020) has been launched as a joint issue of the journals “Materials” and “Applied Sciences”. The 14 contributions published in this Special Issue of Applied Sciences present cutting-edge advances in the field of Manufacturing Engineering focusing on advances and innovations in manufacturing processes; additive manufacturing and 3D printing; manufacturing of new materials; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies; robotics, mechatronics and manufacturing automation; Industry 4.0; design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering; manufacturing engineering and society; and production planning. Among them, the topic “Manufacturing engineering and society” collected the highest number of contributions (representing 22%), followed by the topics “Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies”, “Industry 4.0”, and “Design, modeling and simulation in manufacturing engineering” (each at 14%). The rest of the topics represent the remaining 35% of the contributions.

scholarly journals Special issue on Industry 4.0

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 551-551
Author(s):  
Yeau-Ren Jeng ◽  
Ping-Hei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Special Issue

Reconfigurable molds and a fabrication-aware design tool for manufacturing concrete grid structures

2021 ◽  
pp. 147807712110300
Author(s):  
Ali Baghi ◽  
Saleh Kalantari ◽  
Aryan Baghi
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Architectural Geometry ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Concrete Joints ◽  
Concrete Casting ◽  
Concrete Elements

The design and manufacturing of concrete elements need to be reconsidered in light of current trends in architectural geometry. Today, there is a movement toward greater customization and adaptability of concrete elements using “reconfigurable formworks” and “additive manufacturing.” Our study approached the issue of fabricating non-standardized concrete elements from the perspective of a “reconfigurable fabrication platform.” Specifically, we developed a method of fabricating geometrically diverse concrete joints by combining flexible pressure-enduring tubes with a rigid mechanism, resulting in an adaptive concrete-casting machine. This platform, which we named “Flexi-node,” can be used in conjunction with a relevant fabrication-aware digital design tool. Users can computationally design and fabricate a great variety of concrete joints using just one mold, with a minimum of material waste and with no distortion from hydrostatic pressure as would typically occur in a fully flexible formwork.

scholarly journals Industry 4.0 - Digital Twin Applied to Direct Digital Manufacturing

2019 ◽  
Vol 890 ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Vitorino ◽  
Eliseu Ribeiro ◽  
Rúben Silva ◽  
Cyril Santos ◽  
Pedro Carreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Direct Digital Manufacturing ◽  
Operational Data

Marinha Grande is a city in Leiria’s district, Portugal. Marinha Grande is known as the moulding city, influenced by the glass, plastic and rapid manufacturing industry. Its history comes from the 18th century with the first glass factory. In order to improve technological development in the local industry, Centre for rapid and sustainable product development (CDRsp) was established in 2007.With that historical know-how and data-based moulding manufacturing, this work goal is to link that data with today’s technology, implementing the Industry 4.0. That information would be stored in a Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM) as well as the real-time operational data. Accessing to that cloud, the design and production engineers can work together to digitally create a product without having to stop the machinery.To implement these concepts, this paper suggests a Digital Twin (DT) to take advantage of the historical information allied to the existent industrial machinery. It suggests a digital twin of a robotic arm with an additive or hybrid manufacturing tool, printing big parts (e.g. garden benches or urban furniture) with reused materials such as tire, cork, wood or stone pow loads.

scholarly journals Special Issue on New Industry 4.0 Advances in Industrial IoT and Visual Computing for Manufacturing Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 4323 ◽  
Author(s):  
López de Lacalle ◽  
Posada
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Visual Computing ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Industrial Iot ◽  
New Industry

The new advances of IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things), together with the progress in visual computing technologies, are being addressed by the research community with interesting approaches and results in the Industry 4.0 domain[...]

scholarly journals Implementing Industry 4.0: assessing the current state

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 825-836
Author(s):  
Roland Ortt ◽  
Claire Stolwijk ◽  
Matthijs Punter
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Implementation Status

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce, summarize and combine the results of 11 articles in a special issue on the implementation of Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 emerged as a phenomenon about a decade ago. That is why, it is interesting now to explore the implementation of the concept. In doing so, four research questions are addressed: (1) What is Industry 4.0? (2) How to implement Industry 4.0? (3) How to assess the implementation status of Industry 4.0? (4) What is the current implementation status of Industry 4.0?Design/methodology/approachSubgroups of articles are formed, around one or more research questions involving the implementation of Industry 4.0. The articles are carefully analyzed to provide comprehensive answers.FindingsBy comparing definitions systematically, the authors show important aspects for defining Industry 4.0. The articles in the special issue explore several cases of manufacturing companies that implemented Industry 4.0. In addition, systematic approaches to aid implementation are described: an approach to combine case-study results to solve new implementation problems, approaches to assess readiness or maturity of companies regarding Industry 4.0 and surveys showing the status of implementation in larger samples of companies as well as showing relationships between company characteristics and type of implementation. Small and large firms differ considerably in their process of implementing Industry 4.0, for example.Research limitations/implicationsThis special issue discusses implementation of Industry 4.0. The issue is limited to 11 articles, each of which with its own strengths and limitations.Practical implicationsThe practical relevance of the issue is that it focuses on the implementation of Industry 4.0. Cases showing successful implementation, measurement instruments to assess degree of implementation and advice how to build a database with cases together with large-scale studies on the state of implementation do provide a wealth of information with a large managerial relevance.Originality/valueThe paper introduces an original take on Industry 4.0 by focusing on implementation. The special issue contains both literature reviews, articles describing case studies of implementation, articles developing systematic measurement instruments to assess degree of implementation and some articles reporting large-scale studies on the state of implementation of Industry 4.0 and thereby combine several perspectives on implementation of Industry 4.0.

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