Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 34 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Opportunities and threats in providing remote access to manufacturing-related environments

Giovanni Romagnoli, Mosè Gallo, Annalisa Liccardo, Ralph Riedel

An IoT-based and cloud-assisted AI-driven monitoring platform for smart manufacturing: design architecture and experimental validation

Bianca Caiazzo, Teresa Murino, Alberto Petrillo, Gianluca Piccirillo, Stefania Santini

This work aims at proposing a novel Internet of Things (IoT)-based and cloud-assisted monitoring architecture for smart manufacturing systems able to evaluate their overall status…

A deep attention based approach for predictive maintenance applications in IoT scenarios

Roberto De Luca, Antonino Ferraro, Antonio Galli, Mosè Gallo, Vincenzo Moscato, Giancarlo Sperlì

The recent innovations of Industry 4.0 have made it possible to easily collect data related to a production environment. In this context, information about industrial equipment  

Remote integration of advanced manufacturing technologies into production systems: integration processes, key challenges and mitigation actions

Anas Fattouh, Koteshwar Chirumalla, Mats Ahlskog, Moris Behnam, Leo Hatvani, Jessica Bruch

The study examines the remote integration process of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) into the production system and identifies key challenges and mitigating actions for a…

Early adopters of Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS): state-of-the-art and deployment models

Gianluca Tedaldi, Giovanni Miragliotta

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the manufacturing version of Cloud Computing and aims to increase flexibility in the provision of manufacturing services. On-demand manufacturing…

Augmented reality for industrial services provision: the factors influencing a successful adoption in manufacturing companies

Sara Aquino, Mario Rapaccini, Federico Adrodegari, Giuditta Pezzotta

This paper presents a model aiming to identify the factors influencing the adoption of augmented reality (AR) for industrial services.

A maturity model for the effective digital transformation of laboratories

Valentin Kammerlohr, David Paradice, Dieter Uckelmann

This paper presents a maturity model for digital transformation effectiveness in laboratories (labs) with education and research purposes.

Are smart contracts too smart for Supply Chain 4.0? A blockchain framework to mitigate challenges

Mohamed Grida, Noha A. Mostafa

Smart contracts are self-executing computer programmes that have the potential to be used in several applications instead of traditional written contracts. With the recent rise of…