Here is my invited talk about Cyber-Physical Systems challenges, for iSCI2020 in Guangzhou, China. It was pre-recorded due to the COVID-19 travel ban. Research Challenges for the Industrial Adoption of Cyber-Physical Systems Abstract: Interest in…
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Webots (https://cyberbotics.com) is a simulation environment for the design and modelling of robotic systems. Since robotics invariably results in some physical actuation, Webots can also be used to model Cyber-Physical Systems, and being open source,…
There are a few approaches to creating simulations that affect how we construct our models. The first approach is to do something called a Discrete-Event Simulation. With this model, we look at our system and…
Resources are generally more constrained in an SME manufacturer than for a large corporate organisation; there isn’t the luxury of a research and development department, or an intelligence unit that deals with reporting, analysis and…
Central to lean manufacturing is the empowerment of people. Lean can’t work unless there is a pervasive culture that will experiment, implement and evaluate. The lean methods enable employees to focus on fault diagnosis and…