The factory of the future is going to have a high, but not full, degree of automation. There are three reasons for that. First, no great level of automation is compatible with req...
Integrated factory models of semiconductor fabrication facilities allow conclusions to be drawn on the impact of a given Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) and interactions...
Mathias Schulz, Timothy D. Stanley, Bernhard Renel...
The aim of this research is to introduce the reader to a new perspective on the framework for designing a manufacturing line project in Japanese automobile manufacturing plants. A...
This paper describes a design methodology for the estimation of bus performance of a tuplespace for factory automation. The need of a tuplespace is motivated by the characteristic...
Nicola Drago, Franco Fummi, Marco Monguzzi, Giovan...
Designers of factory automation applications increasingly demand for tools for rapid prototyping of hardware extensions to existing systems and verification of resulting behavior...
Franco Fummi, Mirko Loghi, Stefano Martini, Marco ...