scholarly journals Wearable Mixed Reality Solutions for Industrial Plants and Production Lines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agostino G. Bruzzone ◽  
Marina Massei ◽  
Kirill Sinelshchikov ◽  
Francesco Longo ◽  
Matteo Agresta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Ongoing Project

"In the present research project, the authors developed wearable and portable solutions capable to improve safety in production lines by taking advantages of availability of exhaustive and reliable data in modern industrial plants. Indeed, the synergy between Industry 4.0 and cutting edge devices, such as smartphones and headsets for Mixed Reality demonstrated to be potentially used to assist personnel on the shop floor, especially during critical and most dangerous operations. In this paper it is presented an ongoing project devoted to develop such support systems and to evaluate their efficiency in multiple industrial environments."

scholarly journals The vulnerability of securing IoT production lines and their network components in the Industry 4.0 concept

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 11237-11242
Author(s):  
Tibor Horak ◽  
Zuzana Cervenanska ◽  
Ladislav Huraj ◽  
Pavel Vazan ◽  
Jan Janosik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Lines

scholarly journals TO SUPPORT IOT COLLABORATIVE EXPRESSIVENESS ON THE SHOP FLOOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3149-3158
Author(s):  
Álvaro Aranda Muñoz ◽  
Yvonne Eriksson ◽  
Yuji Yamamoto ◽  
Ulrika Florin ◽  
Kristian Sandström
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Research ◽  
Empirical Material

AbstractThe availability of new research for IoT support and the human-centric perspective of industry 4.0 opens a gap to support operators in unleashing their creativity so they can provide improvements opportunities with IoT technology. This paper presents a case-study carried out in four Swedish manufacturing companies, where four different workshops were facilitated to support operators in the conceptualization of manufacturing improvements with IoT technologies. The empirical material gathered during these workshops has been analyzed in five different reflective sessions and discussed in light of previous research from industry 4.0, operators, and IoT support. Results indicate that operators can collaboratively create conceptual IoT solutions and that expressiveness in communicating their ideas and needs using IoT technology is more relevant than technical aspects and details of their proposed IoT solutions. This technological expressiveness is identified as a necessary skill to be cultivated on the shop floor and can potentially contribute to making a more effective and socially sustainable industrial landscape in the future.

scholarly journals Next Generation Industrial IoT Digitalization for Traceability in Metal Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of Industry 4.0

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 628
Author(s):  
Michail J. Beliatis ◽  
Kasper Jensen ◽  
Lars Ellegaard ◽  
Annabeth Aagaard ◽  
Mirko Presser
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Industrial Iot ◽  
Production Cycles

This paper investigates digital traceability technologies taking careful consideration of the company’s needs to improve the traceability of products at the production of GPV Group as well as the efficiency and added value in their production cycles. GPV is primarily an electronics manufacturing service company (EMS) that manufactures electronic circuit boards, in addition to big metal products at their mechanics manufacturing sites. The company aims to embrace the next generation IoT technologies such as digital traceability in their internal supply chain at manufacturing sites in order to stay compatible with the Industry 4.0 requirements. In this paper, the capabilities of suitable digital traceability technologies are screened together with the actual GPV needs to determine if deployment of such technologies would benefit GPV shop floor operations and can solve the issues they face due to a lack of traceability. The traceability term refers to tracking the geolocation of products throughout the manufacturing steps and how that functionality can foster further optimization of the manufacturing processes. The paper focuses on comparing different IoT technologies and analyze their positive and negative attributes to identify a suitable technological solution for product traceability in the metal manufacturing industry. Finally, the paper proposes a suitable implementation road map for GPV, which can also be adopted from other metal manufacturing industries to deploy Industry 4.0 traceability at shop floor level.

One-of-a-kind Production in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Considering Machine Failures

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Guido Vinci Carlavan ◽  
Daniel Alejandro Rossit
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Job Shop ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Dispatching Rules ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Due Dates ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
Cyber Physical Production Systems

Industry 4.0 proposes the incorporation of information technologies at all levels of the production process. By incorporating these technologies, Industry 4.0 provides new tools for production planning processes, allowing to address problems in an innovative and efficient manner. From these technologies and tools, it is that in this work a One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) process is approached, where the products tend to be highly customized. OKP implies working with a very large variability within production, demanding very efficient planning systems. For this, a planning model based on CONWIP-type strategies was proposed, which seeks to level the production of a shop floor configured in the form of a job shop. Even more, for having a more realistic shop-floor representation, machine failures have been included in the model. In turn, different dispatching rules were proposed to study the performance and analyze the behaviour of the system. From the results obtained, it is observed that, when the production demand is very exigent in relation with the capacity of the system, the dispatching rules that analyze the workload generated by each job tend to perform better. However, when the demand on the capacity of the production system is less intense, the rules associated with due dates are the ones that obtain the best results.

Industrial Maintenance Entering the Industry 4.0 Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Pedro Fernandes Anunciação ◽  
Vitor Manuel Lemos Dinis ◽  
Francisco Madeira Esteves
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Management Condition ◽  
Industrial Maintenance

Industry 4.0 marks the beginning of the so-called fourth industrial revolution. The new emerging information technologies, such as internet of things, cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, among others, have challenged the management and organization of industrial companies. They have now shorter market response times, higher quality requirements, and customization needs, which challenges many industrial areas from production to maintenance, from design to asset management. The maintenance and asset management condition and the reliability of production lines are closely linked and constitute key areas of good industrial operation. This work seeks to present a roadmap proposal for the management of industrial assets from maintenance management. In addition, it seeks to identify the key elements for a roadmap design and proposes a set of management questions to assess maintenance maturity.

scholarly journals Comparing Approaches for Evaluating Digital Interventions on the Shop Floor

Technologies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Lacueva-Pérez ◽  
Lea Hannola ◽  
Jan Nierhoff ◽  
Stelios Damalas ◽  
Soumyajit Chatterjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Ict System ◽  
The One ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Smart Factories

The introduction of innovative digital tools for supporting manufacturing processes has far-reaching effects at an organizational and individual level due to the development of Industry 4.0. The FACTS4WORKERS project funded by H2020, i.e., Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories, aims to develop user-centered assistance systems in order to demonstrate their impact and applicability at the shop floor. To achieve this, understanding how to develop such tools is as important as assessing if advantages can be derived from the ICT system created. This study introduces the technology of a workplace solution linked to the industrial challenge of self-learning manufacturing workplaces. Subsequently, a two-step approach to evaluate the presented system is discussed, consisting of the one used in FACTS4WORKERS and the one used in the “Heuristics for Industry 4.0” project. Both approaches and the use case are introduced as a base for presenting the comparison of the results collected in this paper. The comparison of the results for the presented use case is extended with the results for the rest of the FACTS4WORKERS use cases and with future work in the framework.

Lean, streamlined machine

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Digital supply chains are a key facet of the Industry 4.0 revolution, and certain technological trends are seen as being key to implementing this in an organization. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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