All Outputs (24)

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.

Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torayev, A., Abadia, J. J. P., Martínez-Arellano, G., Cuesta, M., Chaplin, J. C., Larrinaga, F., Sanderson, D., Arrazola, P. J., & Ratchev, S. (2023, October). Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning. Presented at 56th CIRP Conference onManufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS ‘23, Cape Town

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.

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.

Self-configuration of a Robotic Platform to support a self-organized Manufacturing Process (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jimenez, L. A. E., Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Barata, J. (2022, October). Self-configuration of a Robotic Platform to support a self-organized Manufacturing Process. Presented at IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Brussels, Belgium

Self-configuration in manufacturing is a key trend to generate adaptable production systems. Different product requirements need different machine settings and continuous software update. Existing approaches usually assume that manufacturing resource... Read More about Self-configuration of a Robotic Platform to support a self-organized Manufacturing Process.

A Framework for Manufacturing System Reconfiguration based on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., Rehman, H. U., Monetti, F. M., Maffei, A., & Ratchev, S. (2022, June). A Framework for Manufacturing System Reconfiguration based on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin. Presented at Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing International Conference (FAIM 2022), Detroit, USA

The application of digital twins and artificial intelligence to manufacturing has shown potential in improving system resilience, responsiveness, and productivity. Traditional digital twin approaches are generally applied to single, static systems to... Read More about A Framework for Manufacturing System Reconfiguration based on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin.

Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rehman, H. U., Chaplin, J. C., Zarzycki, L., Mo, F., Jones, M., & Ratchev, S. (2022, June). Service Based Approach to Asset Administration Shell for Controlling Testing Processes in Manufacturing. Presented at 10th IFAC Conference On Manufacturing Modelling, Management And Control, Nantes, France

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.

Towards Modular and Plug-and-Produce Manufacturing Apps (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torayev, A., Martínez-Arellano, G., Chaplin, J. C., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2022, June). Towards Modular and Plug-and-Produce Manufacturing Apps. Presented at 55th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems “Leading Manufacturing Systems Transformation”, Lugano, Switzerland

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.

Application of Multi Agent Systems for Leak Testing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rehman, H. U., Chaplin, J. C., Zarzycki, L., Jones, M., & Ratchev, S. (2021, November). Application of Multi Agent Systems for Leak Testing. Presented at 2021 9th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC), Caen, France

The manufacturing of customised products is a driver in the trend of incorporating intelligence in the system. This intelligence is required to enable the system to self-conFigure processes to meet the requirements of unique products. This work deals... Read More about Application of Multi Agent Systems for Leak Testing.

Visualisation on a Shoestring: a low-cost approach for building visualisation components of industrial digital solutions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martínez-Arellano, G., McNally, M. J., Chaplin, J. C., Ling, Z., McFarlane, D., & Ratchev, S. (2021, November). Visualisation on a Shoestring: a low-cost approach for building visualisation components of industrial digital solutions. Presented at 11th International Workshop on Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA’21), Cluny, France

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.

Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rehman, H. U., Pulikottil, T., Estrada-Jimenez, L. A., Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Barata, J., & Ratchev, S. (2021, September). Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems. Presented at EPIA2021 - 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, [Online]

The use of multi-agent systems (MAS) as a distributed control method for shop-floor manufacturing control applications has been extensively researched. MAS provides new implementation solutions for smart manufacturing requirements such as the high dy... Read More about Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems.

A Framework for Self-Configuration in Manufacturing Production Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rehman, H. U., Chaplin, J. C., Zarzycki, L., & Ratchev, S. (2021, July). A Framework for Self-Configuration in Manufacturing Production Systems. Presented at 12th Advanced Doctoral Conference On Computing, Electrical And Industrial Systems (DOCEIS2021), Caparica, Portugal

Intelligence in manufacturing enables the optimization and configuration of processes, and a goal of future smart manufacturing is to enable processes to configure themselves-called self-configuration. This paper describes a framework for utilising d... Read More about A Framework for Self-Configuration in Manufacturing Production Systems.

Context-Aware Plug and Produce for Robotic Aerospace Assembly (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Shires, E., Chaplin, J. C., Brookes, H., Liaqat, A., & Ratchev, S. (2020, December). Context-Aware Plug and Produce for Robotic Aerospace Assembly. Presented at IPAS 2020: 9th International Precision Assembly Seminar, Kitzbühel, Austria

Aerospace production systems face increasing requirements for flexibility and reconfiguration, along with considerations of cost, utilisation, and efficiency. This drives a need for systems with a small number of automation platforms (e.g. industrial... Read More about Context-Aware Plug and Produce for Robotic Aerospace Assembly.

Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises. Presented at 53rd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA

© 2020 The Authors. The manufacturing industries in a number of high-labour-cost economies are undergoing a shift towards increased automation and intelligence typified by the ‘Industry 4.0' paradigm. Advances from computer science research including... Read More about Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises.

Implementing large-scale Aerospace Assembly 4.0 demonstration systems? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Turner, A., Shires, E., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. Implementing large-scale Aerospace Assembly 4.0 demonstration systems?. Presented at 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany

The Future Automated Aerospace Assembly phase 1 technology Demonstrator (FA3D) was commissioned at the University of Nottingham and used to demonstrate concepts from the EPSRC Evolvable Assembly Systems project in specific industrial use cases. A num... Read More about Implementing large-scale Aerospace Assembly 4.0 demonstration systems?.

Demonstration of Transformable Manufacturing Systems through the Evolvable Assembly Systems Project (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Turner, A., Shires, E., Chaplin, J., & Ratchev, S. Demonstration of Transformable Manufacturing Systems through the Evolvable Assembly Systems Project. Presented at AeroTech Americas 2019

© 2019 SAE International. All Rights Reserved. Evolvable Assembly Systems is a five year UK research council funded project into flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems. The principal goal of the research programme has been to define and va... Read More about Demonstration of Transformable Manufacturing Systems through the Evolvable Assembly Systems Project.

Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2018, January). Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly. Presented at 8th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2018, Chamonix, France

Industry 4.0 represents a new philosophy in manufacturing systems, based on networked, intelligent, and cooperative resources. This revolution is necessary to make the cost-effective production of batch-size-of-one customised items in high-value manu... Read More about Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly.

Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly. Presented at 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2018)

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.