The agri-food supply chain (AFSC) operations are becoming challenging due to globalization, constantly shifting consumer demands, and intensive disruptions leading to inefficient production and distribution of safe and high-quality food. Technological advancements are the most promising ways to ensure firms’ survival and supply chains. To enhance the resilience of AFSCs, the present study aims to identify

Iron ore sintering is a critical process in iron and steel production, with a substantial impact on overall energy consumption and the emission of various environmental pollutants. Enhancing the efficiency of this process is crucial for achieving sustainability in the iron and steel industry. Accurate prediction and real-time monitoring of comprehensive production indicators are essential for optimizing

Placing fabric poses a challenge to robots since fabric with high dimensional configuration space can deform during manipulation. Existing methods for placing fabric mostly rely on static operations, which are inefficient and require a large workspace. Therefore, this study applies dynamic manipulation (manipulating uncontrollable parts of the fabric by swinging) to fabric placement, proposing a novel

Condition monitoring of gearboxes is integral to maintaining floor safety, system stability, and inventory management. Capturing vibration response using sensors and subsequent response analysis is the standard procedure for gearbox fault detection. However, the sensors are susceptible to non-constant reliability due to the convolution of vibration responses from multiple sources, background noise

This paper proposes a Wasserstein distributionally robust learning (WDRL) model to predict the production cycle time of highly mixed printed circuit board (PCB) orders on multiple production lines. The PCB production cycle time is essential for optimizing production plans. However, the design of the PCB, production line configuration, order combinations, and personnel factors make the prediction of

Topological elements form the basis for tasks such as geometric calculations, feature analysis, and direct modeling in 3D CAD systems. Handling these elements is also essential in various automated systems. This study proposes a method to search for topological elements within a boundary representation (B-rep) model by employing topological queries. To address complex scenarios that are difficult to

Augmented Reality (AR) instructions offer companies tremendous savings potential. However, developing these AR instructions has traditionally been challenging due to the need for programming skills and spatial knowledge. To address this complexity, industry and academia are working to simplify AR development. A crucial aspect of this process is the accurate positioning of AR content within the physical

Technical coordination between organizations and security concerns are among the major barriers to data sharing. Data spaces are an emerging digital infrastructure that helps address these challenges by sovereignly sharing data across institutional boundaries. The data space concept is at the core of many high-profile research initiatives in the European Union and receives great adoption in practice

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has revolutionized industries, streamlining customer service through applications in healthcare, finance, legal, and human resources domains, and simplifying tasks like medical research, financial analysis, and sentiment analysis. To avoid the high costs of building and maintaining NLP infrastructure, companies turn to Cloud NLP services offered by major cloud providers

It is crucial to detect and classify defect patterns on wafers in semiconductor-manufacturing processes for wafer-quality management and prompt analysis of defect causes. In recent years, continuous technological innovation and advancements in semiconductor-industry processes have led to an increase in unknown defect patterns, which must be detected and classified. However, detection of unknown defect

The connectivity of devices and systems in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enables interoperability and collaboration between industrial systems. Device access is the pathway to achieve connectivity, while protocol matching is the basis for device access. Protocol matching is a complex task due to the diverse range of device types, numerous protocols, the issues related to protocol privatization

Despite growing interest in the use of data for product and service development, a comprehensive understanding of how data is employed in the context of new product, service and product–service system development is lacking. With the aim of deepening understanding of data as a critical resource for generating value through new products and services, we conducted a systematic literature review, conceptualised

To meet the growing demand for lightweight models and rapid defect detection in mini-light emitting diode (LED) chip manufacturing, we developed a highly efficient and lightweight multi-branch gradient backhaul (MBGB) block. Based on the MBGB block, a mini-LED surface defect detector was designed, which included an MBGB network (MBGB-net) for the backbone and an MBGB feature pyramid network (MBGB-FPN)

Parameter estimation of photovoltaic (PV) models, mathematically, is a typical complicated nonlinear multimodal optimization problem with box constraints. Although various methodologies have been explored in the literature, their performance tends to be unstable owing to inadequate adaptability. In this paper, an enhanced social learning swarm optimizer (ESLPSO) is developed to achieve more reliable

The demand for advanced battery management systems (BMSs) and battery test procedures is growing due to the rising importance of electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems. The diversity of battery types, chemistries and application scenarios presents challenges in designing and optimizing BMSs and determining optimal battery test strategies. To address these challenges, semantic web technologies

In the realm of robotic palletisation, the quest for optimal space utilization remains vital but also presents a critical challenge, particularly due to the constraints of decision complexity and the need for real-time decision-making without complete prior information. The widely adopted rule-based heuristics approaches were ease to use, but failed to adapt dynamically to the complex and changing

In high-pressure transportation, characterizing the leakage status of coal dust is an effective means to reduce potential safety hazards in the optimization of energy structures, and it is also conducive to disaster prevention and safety management. Given the existing methods, manual inspection of leakage points requires high measurement skills, entails significant maintenance costs, and is time-consuming

Industrialized construction has been accepted as an effective production method for building project stakeholders to improve installation quality. Recent advancements in industrialized construction have focused on parametric designs for manufacturing and assembly to ensure accurate information flows and workflows across different project stages, however, they have not adequately addressed the challenges

How to upgrade business processes to improve production efficiency is an ongoing concern in industrial research. While previous studies have extensively examined various prioritization schemes at each stage of the business process, there has been a lack of investigation into the financial resources required for their implementation. The attainment of sufficient and stable financial support necessitates

Surface roughness is crucial for the functional and aesthetic properties of mechanical components and must be carefully controlled during machining. However, predicting it under varying machining parameters is challenging due to limited experimental data and fluctuating factors like tool wear and vibration. This study develops a deep transfer learning model that incorporates the correlation alignment

The industrial implementation of automated visual inspection leveraging deep learning is limited due to the labor-intensive labeling of datasets and the lack of datasets containing images of defects, which is especially the case in high-volume manufacturing with zero defect constraints. In this study, we present the FuseDecode Autoencoder (FuseDecode AE), a novel reconstruction-based anomaly detection

Recycling coarse aggregates from construction and demolition waste is essential for sustainable construction practices. However, the quality of recycled coarse aggregates (RCA) often fluctuates significantly, in contrast to the more stable quality of natural aggregates. Contaminants in RCA notably compromise its quality and usability. Therefore, automating the quality control of RCA is necessary for

Apples are among the most popular fruits globally due to their health and nutritional benefits for humans. Artificial intelligence in agriculture has advanced, but vision, which improves machine efficiency, speed, and production, still needs to be improved. Managing apple development from planting to harvest affects productivity, quality, and economics. In this study, by establishing a vision system

In the field of fault transfer diagnosis, many approaches only focus on the distribution alignment and knowledge transfer between the source domain and target domain. However, most of these approaches ignore the precondition of whether this transfer task is transferable. Current mainstream transferability discrimination methods heavily depend on expert knowledge and are extremely vulnerable to the

Interest in Automatic People Counting (APC) for crowd detection and management is rapidly growing. While a range of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and systems exist, video analytics is emerging as a particularly attractive option — especially for applications where more traditional methods of people counting are not available, unreliable or expensive. In this paper we focus on automatic people counting

When using a single sensor to monitor early microleakage of nuclear power pressure pipeline leakage, there are problems such as low monitoring accuracy and poor early warning reliability due to the limitations of the monitoring range and weak difference between the leakage signals. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a dual channel visible graph convolutional neural network (DCV-GCN).

Visual anomaly detection has emerged as a highly applicable solution in practical industrial manufacturing, owing to its notable effectiveness and efficiency. However, it also presents several challenges and uncertainties. To address the complexity of anomaly types and the high cost associated with data annotation, this paper introduces a self-supervised learning framework called TDAD, based on a two-stage

High-precision anomaly detection, as the key technology of magnetic flux leakage (MFL) signal detection, is a challenging task. It is difficult to detect anomalies in MFL signals due to the variety of anomalies and the characteristics of the anomalies are easily submerged in the variation of the natural signals. To address the above issues, a feature-based unsupervised detection network (FUDet) is

Extended Reality (XR) technologies are increasingly popular to support the engagement of different audiences and stakeholders with Discrete Event Simulations (DES) due to their capability to deliver more accessible visual and immersive experiences. XR applications can be developed either using modules integrated into DES software or game engines, providing different sets of opportunities in the environment

Conventional infrastructure asset management practices have heavily relied on static data collection and suffered from decision lags. Though advanced Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems were extensively explored based on multi-functional sensor deployment, asset model updating has not been achieved to facilitate timely and effective decision-making of infrastructure managers due to a lack of

Product Digital Twins (DTs) are digital representations of a physical asset that update synchronously throughout its lifecycle. Over the past decade, a rich and varied literature on the development of new technologies and approaches to implementing product DTs has emerged. This literature has been reviewed multiple times, but the variety in focus and scope of DT reviews has become so extensive that

This research focuses on trading card quality inspection, where defects have a significant effect on both the quality inspection and grading. The present inspection procedure is subjective which means the grading is sensitive to mistakes made by individuals. To address this, a deep neural network based on transfer learning for automated defect detection is proposed with a particular emphasis on corner

Industry 4.0 has led to a huge increase in data coming from machine maintenance. At the same time, advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models provide new ways to analyse this data. In our research, we use NLP to analyse maintenance work orders, and specifically the descriptions of failures and the corresponding repair actions. Many NLP studies have focused on failure descriptions

The electronic navigational charts are crucial carriers for representing the multi-source heterogeneous data of Waterborne Traffic Elements (WTEs). However, their layer-based modelling method has some shortcomings in expressing the multi-granularity features, complex relationships, and dynamic evolution of elements. This paper proposes an objectification modelling method for WTEs based on the concept

Industrial equipment condition monitoring and fault detection are crucial to ensure the reliability of industrial production. Recently, data-driven fault detection methods have achieved significant success, but they all face challenges due to data fragmentation and limited fault detection capabilities. Although centralized data collection can improve detection accuracy, the conflicting interests brought

A patent map is widely used in the field of technical information mining, which can support tasks such as detecting patent vacuums and predicting technical trends. However, existing patent map construction methods have the limitations of insufficient intelligence and accuracy in mining patent technical features, which leads to failure to effectively complete the above tasks. To address these limitations

Novel digital on-demand manufacturing technologies provide a significant opportunity to support development of virtual warehousing and in turn improve supply chain performance. However, the implementation of virtual warehouse comes with a set of challenges, especially where the objective is to virtually warehouse standard or legacy parts that have been developed and verified initially for conventional

Performance degradation and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction are of great significance in improving the reliability of mechanical equipment. Existing cross-domain RUL prediction methods usually reduce data distribution discrepancy by domain adaptation, to overcome domain shift under cross-domain conditions. However, the fine-grained information between cross-domain degradation features and the

We propose a novel framework for detecting 3D human–object interactions (HOI) in construction sites and a toolkit for generating construction-related human–object interaction graphs. Computer vision methods have been adopted for construction site safety surveillance in recent years. The current computer vision methods rely on videos and images, with which safety verification is performed on common-sense

In business processes, an operational problem refers to a deviation and an inefficiency that prohibits an organization from reaching its goals, e.g., a delay in approving a purchase order in a Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process. Operational process monitoring aims to assess the occurrence of such operational problems by analyzing event data that record the execution of business processes. Once the problems

Cheese production, a globally cherished culinary tradition, faces challenges in ensuring consistent product quality and production efficiency. The critical phase of determining cutting time during curd formation significantly influences cheese quality and yield. Traditional methods often struggle to address variability in coagulation conditions, particularly in small-scale factories. In this paper

The proposed transfer learning-based fault diagnosis models have achieved good results in multi-source domain generalization (MDG) tasks. However, research on single-source domain generalization (SDG) is relatively scarce, and the limited availability of small training samples is seldom considered. Therefore, to address the insufficient feature extraction capability and poor generalization performance

This preliminary research presents a comparative study between Text-to-Image AI models and Shape Grammars, one of the main generative approaches to Computer Aided Conceptual Design. The goal is to determine to which extent AI models can reproduce or complement the performance of grammar algorithms as creative support tools for shape exploration in conceptual product design. Workflows, advantages and

This paper delves into the accurate detection of the early initial degradation point (IDP) in bearings, and proposes, for the first time, a comprehensive adaptive IDP detection framework for bearings under variable operating conditions, along with an outlier data repair strategy. First, this study introduces the adaptive early initial degradation point detection (AEIDPD) method, which incorporates

Engineering fault diagnosis often needs to be implemented without prior knowledge of labels. Considering the randomness and drift of fault features, this paper proposes fusing multichannel autoencoders with dynamic global loss (FMA-DGL) to enhance self-supervised fault diagnosis. Multiple autoencoders are employed to represent the fault features of multichannel vibration signals. A dynamic global loss

The crude oil price has been subject to periodic fluctuations because of seasonal changes in industrial demand and supply, weather, natural disasters and global political unrest. An accurate forecast of crude oil prices is of utmost importance for decision makers and industry players in the energy sector. Despite this, the volatility of crude oil prices contributes to the uncertainty of the energy

The methods for unsupervised visual inspection use algorithms that are developed, trained and evaluated on publicly available datasets. However, these datasets do not reflect genuine industrial conditions, and thus current methods are not evaluated in real-world industrial production contexts. To answer this shortcoming, we introduce AutoVI, an industrial dataset of visual defects that can be encountered

Digitally enhanced technologies are transforming every aspect of the manufacturing sector towards the era of digital manufacturing. Traditional lubricant development methods involving systematic but time-consuming iterative processes is still extensively used in the metal forming industry. In the present study, a novel digitally enhanced lubricant development scheme was proposed by leveraging a mechanism-based

In industrial sectors such as shipping, chemical processing, and energy production, centrifugal pumps often experience failures due to harsh operational environments, making it challenging to accurately identify fault types. Traditional fault diagnosis methods, which heavily rely on existing fault datasets, suffer from limited generalization capabilities, especially when substantial labeled and specific

The accuracy and quality of part formation are crucial considerations. However, the laser directed energy deposition (L-DED) process often leads to irregular changes in deposition contours and mechanical properties across parts due to complex flow fields and temperature variations. Hence, to ensure the forming accuracy and quality, it is necessary to achieve precise monitoring and appropriate parameter

A metal tube system is known as the industrial blood vessel, among which the bent section is the most vulnerable part. The cross-sectional defects (CSDs) of the bent tube cause the flow fluctuation of the fluid inside the tube. The existing defect characterization methods are roughly presented by describing CSDs in some specific cross-sections, which results in the lack of the tube full-bent section

Improvements in the performance and graphical quality of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) have led to their increasing use in Virtual Reality (VR) for product presentation and virtual prototype (VP) evaluations. Various locomotion techniques in VR make it possible to move through a virtual scenario and approach the VP for evaluation purposes. The integration of eye-tracking devices into recent HMDs allows

Data form the backbone of manufacturing sciences, initiating a revolutionary transformation in our understanding of manufacturing processes by unravelling complex scientific patterns embedded within them. Digital characteristics (DC) is defined as a strategic framework mapping the manufacturing metadata and integrates essential information across the entire spectrum spanning from the design, manufacturing

Critical infrastructures (CIs) are highly susceptible to cyber threats due to their crucial role in the nation and society. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are deployed at the process level to enhance CI security. These process-level IDSs are broadly categorized into univariate and multivariate systems. Our research underscores that both types of systems encounter limitations, especially in handling

The cotter pin (CP) is a vital fastener for the catenary support components (CSCs) of high-speed electrified railways. Due to the vibration and excitation caused by the passing of railway vehicles, some CPs may be broken or fallen off over time, which poses a significant safety hazard to the railway systems. Currently, the CP defect detection is primarily conducted by humans, which is inefficient and

This article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of empirical studies concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Over the past decade, technologies belonging to AI have developed rapidly, reaching a sufficient level of maturity to catalyze transformative changes in business and society. Within the SCM community, there are high expectations about

The radiographic inspection plays a crucial role in ensuring the casting quality for improving the service life under harsh environments. However, due to the low-contrast between the defects and the image background, the random spatial position distribution, random shapes and aspect ratios of the defects, the development of an accurate defect automatic detection system is still challenging. To address

The benefits of Digital Twins are widely recognized across various use cases. However, to ensure efficient utilization of Digital Twins, it is crucial to minimize the effort required for their creation. This is particularly relevant for behavior models, which play a significant role in many Digital Twin use cases. While there are existing approaches for creating these models efficiently, they rely

Magnetic pulse crimping (MPC) addresses the limitations of conventional hydraulic crimping in cable joint applications. However, the lack of dependable detection methods presents a significant challenge in MPC manufacturing. This study proposed a novel approach integrating 3D vision and ensemble learning to achieve a non-destructive quality assessment of MPC joints. By analyzing the geometric characteristics