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Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning (2024)
Journal Article
Elshafei, B., Martínez-Arellano, G., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2024). Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(19), 789-794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.09.202

Supply chains have been profoundly impacted by recent global disruptions, resulting in widespread shortages of parts, goods, and raw materials, significantly affecting the manufacturing sector to the extent of halting production lin... Read More about Semantic Modelling of a Manufacturing Value Chain: Disruption Response Planning.

A modular artificial intelligence and asset administration shell approach to streamline testing processes in manufacturing services (2023)
Journal Article
Rehman, H. U., Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Zarzycki, L., Jones, M., & Ratchev, S. (2024). A modular artificial intelligence and asset administration shell approach to streamline testing processes in manufacturing services. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 72, 424-436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2023.12.004

The increasing demand for personalized products and cost-effectiveness has highlighted the necessity of integrating intelligence into production systems. This integration is crucial for enabling intelligent control that can adapt to variations in fea... Read More about A modular artificial intelligence and asset administration shell approach to streamline testing processes in manufacturing services.

PLC orchestration automation to enhance human–machine integration in adaptive manufacturing systems (2023)
Journal Article
Mo, F., Ugarte Querejeta, M., Hellewell, J., Rehman, H. U., Illarramendi Rezabal, M., Chaplin, J. C., …Ratchev, S. (2023). PLC orchestration automation to enhance human–machine integration in adaptive manufacturing systems. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 71, 172-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2023.07.015

Current approaches to manufacturing must evolve to respond to increasing demands for short product life cycles and customised products. Adaptive manufacturing systems integrate advanced technologies, automation, and data-driven methodologies to devel... Read More about PLC orchestration automation to enhance human–machine integration in adaptive manufacturing systems.

Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers (2023)
Journal Article
Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., Martínez-Arellano, G., & Ratchev, S. (2024). Semantic models and knowledge graphs as manufacturing system reconfiguration enablers. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 86, Article 102625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2023.102625

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.

A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence (2023)
Journal Article
Mo, F., Rehman, H. U., Monetti, F. M., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., Popov, A., …Ratchev, S. (2023). A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 82, Article 102524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2022.102524

Digital twins and artificial intelligence have shown promise for improving the robustness, responsiveness, and productivity of industrial systems. However, traditional digital twin approaches are often only employed to augment single, static systems... Read More about A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence.

Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing (2022)
Journal Article
Rehman, H. U., Chaplin, J. C., Zarzycki, L., Mo, F., Jones, M., & Ratchev, S. (2022). Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(10), 1852-1857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.668

The rise in demand for customised products and lower costs has generated the need for incorporating intelligence in production systems. Intelligence is the main driver for enabling intelligent control in production systems to meet feature, part and c... Read More about Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing.

Industrial Robots 4.0 (2020)
Book Chapter
Fassi, I., Pio Negri, S., Pagano, C., Rebaioli, L., & Valori, M. (2020). Industrial Robots 4.0. In J. Chaplin, C. Pagano, & S. Fort (Eds.), Digital Manufacturing for SMEs: An Introduction (191-212). Digit-T. https://doi.org/10.17639/vjvt-7681

A Function-Behaviour-Structure design methodology for adaptive production systems (2019)
Journal Article
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2019). A Function-Behaviour-Structure design methodology for adaptive production systems. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-019-03823-x

Adaptive production systems are a key trend in modern advanced manufacturing. This stems from the requirement for the system to respond to disruption , either in the form of product changes or changes to other operational parameters. The design and r... Read More about A Function-Behaviour-Structure design methodology for adaptive production systems.

Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly.

Current sectoral drivers for the manufacturing of complex products - such as airframe assembly -require new manufacturing system paradigms to meet them. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for cyber-physical systems driven by ubiquitous... Read More about Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly.

Common shared system model for evolvable assembly systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Common shared system model for evolvable assembly systems.

A vital aspect of distributed control in an adaptable production system is coherence between each system resource. The Evolvable Assembly Systems project addresses this challenge using a common shared system model. This paper provides an overview of... Read More about Common shared system model for evolvable assembly systems.

Functional modelling in evolvable assembly systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Functional modelling in evolvable assembly systems.

The design and reconfiguration of adaptive production systems is a key driver in modern advanced manufacturing. We summarise the use of an ap-proach from the field of functional modelling to capture the function, behaviour, and structure of a system.... Read More about Functional modelling in evolvable assembly systems.

Photochromic molecular implementations of universal computation (2014)
Journal Article
Chaplin, J. C., Krasnogor, N., & Russell, N. A. (2014). Photochromic molecular implementations of universal computation. BioSystems, 126, 12-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.09.004

Unconventional computing is an area of research in which novel materials and paradigms are utilised to implement computation. Previously we have demonstrated how registers, logic gates and logic circuits can be implemented, unconventionally, with a b... Read More about Photochromic molecular implementations of universal computation.