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The concept of a smart city has been identified as important aspect for responding to the challenges of urbanization and convenience for citizens. The information communication technologies such as cloud computing, internet of things and Service-Oriented Architectures can be deployed as a vehicle for catalysing smart city innovations. Information and sensing technology utilisation and integration...
Building complex industrial systems from smaller systems provides flexibility and reconfigurability to the production environment. The reconfigurability of the machines in highly digitalized industrial environments causes however also challenges for the condition monitoring as the emergent behaviour of the system-of-systems can be unknown. System-of-systems approach brings reconfigurability for the...
Current trend in industrial systems is to make devices more intelligent and distribute the control into smaller components. The intelligent devices produce big amount of data which can be provided to plant personnel for maintaining the proper function and desired production performance. Large systems may contain hundreds of intelligent controllers, therefore, there is a need for a system that can...
Monitoring and fault diagnosis systems are vital for industrial robot systems for better awareness of system status and shortening the down time. In many cases, the monitoring systems are not upgraded after the robot first installation, because the modifications could cause undesired disturbance for the production. However, for better monitoring and diagnostics rich information is essential that typically...
After installation, safety systems are usually not upgraded anymore, because producers have no financial incentive to impose modifications on the production line . The traditional approach to installing safety systems is to connect all safety components within a workcell in series. The crucial associated problem is the subsequent identification of the source of a fail state. This paper proposes a...
In order to fully exploit the potential of optimization algorithms for energy savings in factory automation settings, it is needed to bring together engineers that have knowledge of signal processing algorithms with shop floor engineers that are experienced with real manufacturing processes and factory automation settings. This paper presents an open database storing energy-relevant data from a multi-robot...
This paper presents the steps taken to retrofit a real multi robot factory automation testbed to achieve increased flexibility, reconfigurability and awareness of assets including energy-relevant, safety-relevant and quality-relevant parameters. Most changes made can be replicated on similar discrete manufacturing settings, as the leveraging technology is Web Services deploying Service Oriented Architecture...
Safety is a major concern in the manufacturing industry. Most of the currently used monitoring techniques for safety data acquisition are proprietary; hence, it is complex to integrate seamless with the rest of the enterprise network. This paper proposes a monitoring technique which can resolve these issues by monitoring the safety data using the ubiquitous standard Web Service Technologies over IP...
Rapidly reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RRMS) are acknowledged to serve the needs of the manufacturing companies for handling the shortening product life cycles and mass customization. Reconfigurability aspects are important for achieving short configuration times and adjustable production volumes in automation systems. This paper discusses on material handling system (MHS) where the rapid reconfigurability...
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