All Outputs (6)

Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elshafei, B., Martínez-Arellano, G., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2024, June). Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization. Paper presented at 33rd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2024), Taiwan, Taichung

Within the context of Industry 4.0 and the Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) framework has emerged as a critical component for implementing Digital Twins that facilitate a seamless data exchange within a... Read More about Semantic Knowledge Representation in Asset Administration Shells: Empowering Manufacturing Utilization.

Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazantsev, N., Niewiadomski, K., Martínez-Arellano, G., Elshafei, B., Mo, F., & Murthy, S. R. (2023, September). Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation. Presented at Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Industrial Automation (LoDiSA 2023), Cambridge, UK

Responding to demand fluctuations represents a challenge for manufacturers, as they often face resource limitations and cannot assess all potential solutions. This paper presents a low-cost semantic engineering solution (ontology) to coordinate poten... Read More about Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation.

Efficient decision-making in SMEs: leveraging knowledge graphs with Neo4j and AI vision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mo, F., Ur Rehman, H. U., Elshafei, B., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., Martínez-Arellano, G., & Ratchev, S. (2023, September). Efficient decision-making in SMEs: leveraging knowledge graphs with Neo4j and AI vision. Presented at Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Industrial Automation (LoDiSA 2023), Cambridge, UK

In the evolving digital landscape, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) grapple with the intricate task of managing vast manufacturing data while operating within budgetary constraints. Addressing this dichotomy, our research introduces an innov... Read More about Efficient decision-making in SMEs: leveraging knowledge graphs with Neo4j and AI vision.

Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martínez-Arellano, G., Niewiadomski, K., Mo, F., Elshafei, B., Chaplin, J. C., Mcfarlane, D., & Ratchev, S. (2023, July). Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling. Presented at IFAC World Congress 2023: The 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Yokohama, Japan

Resilience to supply chain disruptions and to changing product volumes and specifications are currently major challenges for the manufacturing sector. To maintain quality and productivity, manufacturers need to be able to respond to disruption using... Read More about Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling.

Elastic manufacturing systems: A system view on operations, firm, and supply chain resilience (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazantsev, N., Niewiadomski, K., El-Shafei, B., Murthy, S. R., Chaplin, J., Martínez-Arellano, G., Ratchev, S., Velu, C., Mcfarlane, D., & Minshall, T. (2023, July). Elastic manufacturing systems: A system view on operations, firm, and supply chain resilience. Presented at 30th EurOMA Conference, Leuven, Belgium

'Black swan' events-such as military conflicts, pandemics, and semiconductor crises-drastically change product volume and mix patterns and shorten how long manufacturers have to cost-effectively respond to them. This is a particular challenge for hig... Read More about Elastic manufacturing systems: A system view on operations, firm, and supply chain resilience.

Capacity Modelling and Measurement for Smart Elastic Manufacturing Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elshafei, B., Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Arellano, G. M., & Ratchev, S. Capacity Modelling and Measurement for Smart Elastic Manufacturing Systems. Presented at Aerotech 2023, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Aerospace manufacturing is improving its productivity and growth by expanding its capacity for production by investing in new tools and more equipment to provide additional capacity and flexibility in the face of widespread supply disruptions and unp... Read More about Capacity Modelling and Measurement for Smart Elastic Manufacturing Systems.