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Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project (2020)
Journal Article
McNally, M. J., Chaplin, J. C., Martinez-Arellano, G., & Ratchev, S. (2020). Towards Flexible, Fault Tolerant Hardware Service Wrappers for the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring Project. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(3), 72-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.11.065

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.

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

Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises (2020)
Journal Article
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2020). Affordable data integration approach for production enterprises. Procedia CIRP, 93, 616-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.04.124

© 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)
Journal Article
Sanderson, D., Turner, A., Shires, E., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2020). Implementing large-scale Aerospace Assembly 4.0 demonstration systems?. IFAC papers online, 53(2), 10267-10274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2759

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?.