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Towards Frugal Industrial AI : A Framework for the Development of Scalable and Robust Machine Learning Models in the Shop Floor (2024)
Presentation / Conference

Artificial Intelligence (AI) among other digital technologies promise to deliver the next level of process efficiency of manufacturing systems. Although these solutions such as machine learning (ML) based condition monitoring and quality inspection a... Read More about Towards Frugal Industrial AI : A Framework for the Development of Scalable and Robust Machine Learning Models in the Shop Floor.

Immune system inspired smart maintenance framework: tool wear monitoring use case (2024)
Journal Article

As the manufacturing industry is moving towards the fourth industrial revolution, there is an increasing need for smart maintenance systems that could provide manufacturers with a competitive advantage by predicting failures. Despite various efforts... Read More about Immune system inspired smart maintenance framework: tool wear monitoring use case.

Improving the development and reusability of Industrial AI through Semantic Models (2024)
Conference Proceeding

Despite some of the success of AI, particularly machine learning, in industrial applications such as condition monitoring, quality inspection and asset control , solutions are typically bespoke and not robust in the long term. There is a considerable... Read More about Improving the development and reusability of Industrial AI through Semantic Models.

Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning (2023)
Journal Article

In manufacturing, different costs must be considered when selecting the optimal manufacturing configuration. Costs include manufacturing costs, material costs, labor costs, and overhead costs. Optimal manufacturing configurations are those that minim... Read More about Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning.

Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation (2023)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Classification of cancer cells at the sub-cellular level by phonon microscopy using deep learning (2023)
Journal Article

There is a consensus about the strong correlation between the elasticity of cells and tissue and their normal, dysplastic, and cancerous states. However, developments in cell mechanics have not seen significant progress in clinical applications. In t... Read More about Classification of cancer cells at the sub-cellular level by phonon microscopy using deep learning.

Methodology for Digital Transformation: A Continuous Improvement Approach (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Digital technologies have the potential to significantly transform the manufacturing industry by achieving improvements in productivity, quality and sustainability. Despite this, the uptake is relatively low as companies face a number of challenges i... Read More about Methodology for Digital Transformation: A Continuous Improvement Approach.

Low-cost System for Visual Inspection of Corrosion: An Industrial Case Study (2023)
Conference Proceeding

The use of digital technologies around the world has increased considerably, modifying the way in which daily activities are conducted. The manufacturing sector is no exception. Over the last decade, digital technologies have become a key element for... Read More about Low-cost System for Visual Inspection of Corrosion: An Industrial Case Study.

Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers (2023)
Journal Article

Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) provides a cost-effective approach for manufacturers to adapt to fluctuating market demands by reconfiguring assets through automated analysis of asset utilization and resource allocation. Achieving this auto... Read More about Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers.

Optimal Selection of Manufacturing Configurations Using Object-Oriented and Mathematical Data Models (2023)
Book Chapter

In this work, we optimize manufacturing configurations, i.e., the set of necessary assets, using the known capabilities and capacities of manufacturing equipment. In particular, the work provides an Object-Oriented data model and the translation of t... Read More about Optimal Selection of Manufacturing Configurations Using Object-Oriented and Mathematical Data Models.

Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling (2023)
Conference Proceeding

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)
Conference Proceeding

'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.

Online and Modular Energy Consumption Optimization of Industrial Robots (2023)
Journal Article

Industrial robots contribute to a considerable amount of energy consumption in manufacturing. However, modeling the energy consumption of industrial robots is a complex problem as it requires considering components such as the robot controller, fans... Read More about Online and Modular Energy Consumption Optimization of Industrial Robots.

Capacity Modelling and Measurement for Smart Elastic Manufacturing Systems (2023)
Journal Article

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.

UX- for Smart-PSS: Towards a Context-aware Framework (2022)
Conference Proceeding

A data analytics model for improving process control in flexible manufacturing cells (2022)
Journal Article

With the need of more responsive and resilient manufacturing processes for high value, customised products, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) remain a very relevant manufacturing approach. Due to their complexity, quality monitoring in these types... Read More about A data analytics model for improving process control in flexible manufacturing cells.

Towards Modular and Plug-and-Produce Manufacturing Apps (2022)
Journal Article

Industry 4.0 redefines manufacturing systems as smart and connected systems where software solutions provide additional capabilities to the manufacturing equipment. However, the connection of manufacturing equipment with software solutions is challen... Read More about Towards Modular and Plug-and-Produce Manufacturing Apps.

Visualisation on a Shoestring: a low-cost approach for building visualisation components of industrial digital solutions (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The rate of adoption of digital solutions in manufacturing environments remains low despite the benefits these can bring. This is particularly acute among industrial small and medium enterprises (SMEs), who typically do not have the confidence to ado... Read More about Visualisation on a Shoestring: a low-cost approach for building visualisation components of industrial digital solutions.

A Graphical Environment to Support the Development of Affordable Digital Manufacturing Solutions (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Digital solutions have the potential to drastically transform manufacturing operations, but smaller manufacturing businesses (SMEs) have been reluctant to adopt digital solutions due to perceived investment and upskilling costs. The Digital Manufactu... Read More about A Graphical Environment to Support the Development of Affordable Digital Manufacturing Solutions.

Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project (2020)
Journal Article

The adoption of digital manufacturing in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector in the UK is low, yet these technologies offer significant promise to boost productivity. Two major causes of this lack of uptake is the high upfr... Read More about Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project.