{"title":"Digital transformation of ironmaking blast furnace: data governance and mining","authors":"Ziyang Gao, Wenqiang Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the core process of the steel industry, the digital transformation of blast furnace ironmaking is key to driving the industry to achieve efficient, green, and stable production. This paper focuses on data governance and mining in the process of blast furnace digital transformation: first, it analyzes the challenges and cutting-edge solutions in blast furnace data integration, and emphasizes the importance of building a multi-technology collaborative data integration ecosystem; then, it discusses the characteristics and limitations of the existing processing methods in the data preprocessing link, and on this basis, it elaborates a refined processing strategy combining process mechanism and data-driven approach. Finally, this paper envisions the future digital application system of the blast furnace, which is constructed with digital twin as the carrier, vertical large models for knowledge driving, and multi-agent systems to realize unmanned autonomous regulation. Guided by the theories of this research, the foundation of data governance can be consolidated and the application of data mining can be further advanced, which provides a solid technical route and theoretical support for the digital transformation and upgrading of blast furnaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101149"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic vision-enabled contactless machine fault diagnosis with neuromorphic domain generalization","authors":"Xinrui Chen, Xiang Li, Yaguo Lei, Bin Yang, Naipeng Li, Shupeng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the recent years, breakthroughs in data-driven approaches have significantly enhanced the accuracy and efficiency of mechanical equipment fault diagnostics. Generally, vibration signals obtained through contact-based measurement remain the primary data source for mechanical fault detection methodologies. However, limitations are noted in many industrial scenarios such as small installation space, high temperature, etc. In comparison, contactless vibration sensors are expected to overcome the limitations and have broader application prospects. The bio-inspired event camera realizes contactless dynamic vision through asynchronous triggering mechanisms, demonstrating microsecond temporal resolution, wide illumination adaptability, and lower data redundancy than frame-based imaging. These characteristics facilitate contactless vibration monitoring in machinery. In practice, event-based measurements exhibit strong dependence on sensor pose variations, ambient illumination, and the operating conditions of mechanical equipment. Consequently, dynamic vision-based fault diagnosis typically exhibits poor generalization performance. To overcome these limitations, a novel dynamic vision-enabled fault diagnosis method for mechanical equipment is proposed in this paper. The event camera is used to capture the vibration signal in a contactless manner. A specially designed neuromorphic model is proposed for spatiotemporal signal processing and feature extraction. A domain generalization technique based on kernel methods is further proposed, which significantly enhances the model generalization performance. The experimental validation across two rotating machine datasets have validated the diagnostic robustness of the proposed method. Benefiting from the contactless nature, the proposed method shows promising industrial application prospects, while ensuring the fault diagnosis accuracy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101155"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanbo Yang , Yating Guo , Jiawei Zhang , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma
{"title":"APPD:An Auditable and Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing scheme for Cloud-assisted Industrial Internet of Things","authors":"Yanbo Yang , Yating Guo , Jiawei Zhang , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cloud-assisted Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is prevalent in offering high quality industrial service by accommodating a huge volume of industrial data to eliminate the heavy burden of resource-limited smart devices and providing convenient industrial data sharing services for participants. However, the outsourced industrial data in remote cloud contain strongly sensitive information of manufacturing and are essential for decisions with analysis. Unauthorized access by malicious users or even destruction to these data will cause severe privacy leakage or manufacturing negligence. Thus, access control, privacy preserving and data integrity are of great significance to industrial data sharing in Cloud-assisted IIoT. Although Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) is a powerful tool for cloud data sharing, it incurs several limitations when used in industry field. Many existing schemes lack the ability to deal with data integrity violation, malicious user revocation and user privacy leakage of cleartext access policy simultaneously. Meanwhile, the key escrow is also an important security risk. As a countermeasure, in this paper, we propose an Auditable and Privacy Preserving Data Sharing Framework (APPD) for Cloud-assisted IIoT. In our framework, we devise a novel decentralized CP-ABE scheme with large universe and data auditing to achieve both fine-grained access control with key escrow resistance over unbounded attributes and data integrity guarantee. The full policy hiding and user revocation mechanisms are employed to prevent user privacy from being leaked by access policy and malicious users. At last, we present detailed formal security analysis for our proposal and the thorough performance assessment also demonstrates its feasible in IIoT application.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101084"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146110394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chao He , Hongmei Shi , Jing-Xiao Liao , Bin Liu , Qiuhai Liu , Jianbo Li , Zujun Yu
{"title":"Prior knowledge-embedded first-layer interpretable paradigm for rail transit vehicle human–computer collaboration fault monitoring","authors":"Chao He , Hongmei Shi , Jing-Xiao Liao , Bin Liu , Qiuhai Liu , Jianbo Li , Zujun Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rail transit vehicles endure large loads, high speeds, and harsh environment, leading to component failure. The first-layer interpretable paradigm (FLIP) embeds human prior knowledge into smart equipment, which is one of intelligent paradigms guided by customized manufacturing and embodied intelligence. It consists of first-layer interpretable modules, backbones, loss metrics. However, existing efforts rely on single-source information, an absence of interpretable backbones, an inability to feature fusion, thereby struggling with multi-excitation, coupled signals. To bridge this gap, a FLIP-based one-stage multi-view capsule fusion network (PIFCapsule) is proposed. Firstly, a signal processing prior-empowered first-layer interpretable module is devised to realize automatic parameter optimization and highlight the complementarity between multi-view features from different signal processing algorithms. Secondly, an interpretable capsule network serves as the backbone. To overcome the inefficiency and shortage of information fusion, an efficient attention fusion routing (AFR) is proposed to reduce the parameters (about 5.72 times) and the complexity (about 2.93 times) in contrast to the vanilla capsule-based networks. In response to the lack of physics-based constraints during training, a noise threshold amplitude ratio (NTAR) is posed as a regularization, which enhances weak periodic transient pulses by suppressing learned noises. The effectiveness and reliability are verified through three real-world rail transit vehicle datasets: PIFCapsule outperforms the state-of-the-art by 6.77% in accuracy with only ten samples. Given the lightweight nature, it holds substantial promise to be deployed in intelligent edge devices. Code is available at <span><span>https://github.com/liguge/PIFCapsule</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qingyu Zhang , Fakhar Shahzad , Chiranjibe Jana , Nikola Ivkovic , Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
{"title":"Navigating digitalization and global value chains: Empirical insights from the Chinese manufacturing industry","authors":"Qingyu Zhang , Fakhar Shahzad , Chiranjibe Jana , Nikola Ivkovic , Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a rapidly digitalized and globalized world, enterprises understand how digitalization shapes the global value chain (GVC) to remain competitive. Previous studies have examined digitalization, trade openness, research and development (R&D) investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and infrastructure quality, leaving a gap in understanding the integrated determinants of GVC. This study aims to fill this research gap by examining the integrated impact of digitalization on GVC. Unlike previous studies, this study develops a holistic framework that captures a multidimensional analysis of the interaction between digitalization and GVC participation. This study used panel data models to achieve the desired outcomes from China’s manufacturing sector, and the results were obtained using Machine Learning Techniques. This study shows that manufacturing, domestic and foreign digitalization, research and development, productivity, and GVC participation all improve a GVC’s position; however, foreign direct investment hampers this improvement. Trade openness, financial growth, and infrastructure all positively impact the relationship between digitalization and the GVC position. By explicitly integrating digital technologies with broader economic and institutional factors, these findings offer a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of GVC competitiveness and provide actionable insights for the manufacturing sectors of emerging economies undergoing rapid digital transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101083"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seyed Pendar Toufighi , Reza Tafazoli , Sara Habibi , Jan Vang
{"title":"A delphi-informed fuzzy multi-criteria decision framework for prioritizing sustainable development goals in industrial strategy: an application to the paint and coatings sector","authors":"Seyed Pendar Toufighi , Reza Tafazoli , Sara Habibi , Jan Vang","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Industrial sustainability decision-making requires the integration of heterogeneous, uncertain, and expert-based information into actionable strategic priorities. Despite the widespread adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), managers still lack robust decision-support tools to prioritize SDGs and translate them into concrete industrial strategies under uncertainty. To address this gap, this study develops a Delphi-informed fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis framework that integrates the fuzzy BWM and fuzzy TOPSIS to support SDG prioritization and sustainability-oriented capability ranking. The framework is empirically applied to the paint and coatings industry, a resource- and energy-intensive sector facing increasing sustainability pressures. Based on expert consensus, the results identify SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), and SDG 9 (industry, innovation, and infrastructure) as the most critical priorities. Among alternative strategies, sustainability-oriented branding and innovation management emerge as the most effective capabilities for advancing these goals. The study contributes scientifically by operationalizing SDGs as computable decision criteria, integrating stakeholder legitimacy and resource-based perspectives into a unified decision-intelligence framework, and demonstrating how fuzzy techniques can support sustainability-driven industrial strategy formulation under uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101091"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial information integration through autonomous AI agents: paradoxical effects on transparency, dehumanization, and responsible retail operations","authors":"Shaofeng Wang , Hao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Industrial information integration increasingly relies on autonomous artificial intelligence agents to synthesize operational data, coordinate cross-functional processes, and execute real-time decisions in retail environments. This study investigates the paradoxical effects of AI-enabled industrial informatization on operational transparency, algorithmic dehumanization, and responsible performance outcomes. Through a mixed-methods analysis of 419 cross-border e-commerce firms employing structural equation modeling, importance-performance mapping, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, and executive interviews, we uncover counterintuitive dynamics in human-technology information integration. Results demonstrate that AI agent autonomy enhances operational transparency and reduces algorithmic dehumanization by creating audit-ready information architectures and filtering impersonal computational tasks from human-centric work. However, human-centric governance mechanisms introduce bureaucratic friction that paradoxically weakens these positive integration effects. We identify two mechanisms—\"enlightened autonomy,\" wherein sophisticated systems necessitate built-in information traceability, and \"humanity-enabling filters,\" wherein automation redirects human attention toward relational tasks. These findings challenge prevailing assumptions about AI opacity in industrial information systems and reveal that governance structures intended to safeguard ethical integration may inadvertently undermine the benefits of advanced industrial informatization. The study contributes to industrial information integration theory by demonstrating that autonomous technological systems, when properly architected for information transparency, can foster more responsible and human-compatible industrial operations than traditional management approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101089"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146110395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Gosheh Dezfouli, Behnam Vahdani, E. Mehdizadeh, H.R. Gholami
{"title":"A nested goal programming model integrated with an improved genetic bee colony algorithm supported by machine learning methods","authors":"N. Gosheh Dezfouli, Behnam Vahdani, E. Mehdizadeh, H.R. Gholami","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Formulating engine oil additives is challenging because it requires simultaneously optimizing production efficiency, cost, and compliance with strict quality standards. This study presents an advanced optimization framework for 10W-40 API SL engine oil that combines a nested goal programming model with machine learning (ML) techniques to predict production rates and quality metrics that cannot be expressed in closed-form equations. To address the inability of conventional ML approaches to generate novel additive combinations, we propose an enhanced genetic bee colony algorithm incorporating arithmetic crossover, Makinen–Periaux–Toivanen mutation operators, and a Cauchy distribution-based local search. These modifications significantly improve the algorithm’s ability to explore and evaluate new formulations. The resulting framework achieves 98.76% of nominal production capacity—very close to the theoretical optimum—while reducing quality-related costs by an average of 20.44%. These results represent substantial improvements in production efficiency, cost savings, and overall formulation quality, providing a powerful and practical tool for the engine oil industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101082"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Zhu , Tao Geng , Jia Zhang , Jianlei Cui , Boxin Ren
{"title":"Deep acoustic–visual fusion for robust material recognition in intelligent robotic perception","authors":"Bo Zhu , Tao Geng , Jia Zhang , Jianlei Cui , Boxin Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate material recognition is crucial for intelligent robotic perception, enabling autonomous interaction, grasping, and navigation in complex environments. While traditional single-modality approaches often lack comprehensive information, which limits their performance, multimodal methods that combine acoustic and visual data provide a more robust solution by leveraging complementary cues. However, existing techniques face challenges in effectively integrating these modalities, resulting in suboptimal recognition accuracy under certain conditions. To address these limitations, we propose <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>CNet, a novel multimodal material classification network that incorporates adaptive frequency filtering, dual-branch feature fusion, cross-attention, and modality fusion attention. The adaptive frequency filtering block dynamically optimizes acoustic frequency bands to enhance the extraction of discriminative features. Meanwhile, the dual-branch feature fusion block captures local and global visual features at multiple scales, improving texture representation. To strengthen inter-modal relationships, the cross-attention block enables mutual reinforcement between acoustic and visual features, while the modality fusion attention block adaptively balances the contributions of each modality at both the channel and spatial levels. This ensures robustness even in the presence of incomplete or noisy data. Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal texture datasets demonstrate that <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>CNet consistently outperforms other methods in accuracy, precision, and recall.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101074"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146072126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cangming Liang , Zulong Diao , Xin Wang , Yingzi Huo , Kuanching Li , Dacheng He , Wei Liang
{"title":"FedAHPIP: Federated Learning with Adaptive Hot Parameter Identification and Personalized Anchoring for multi-agent collaboration","authors":"Cangming Liang , Zulong Diao , Xin Wang , Yingzi Huo , Kuanching Li , Dacheng He , Wei Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jii.2026.101087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Smart manufacturing seeks to achieve collective intelligence through collaboration. However, such collaboration must be secure and personalized to handle heterogeneous industrial agents. Federated learning offers a promising paradigm for this setting but faces two fundamental challenges: privacy leakage through gradient inversion attacks (e.g., DLG) and data heterogeneity requiring personalized models. To address these challenges, we propose FedAHPIP, a federated learning framework that integrates secure aggregation with personalized learning. Our approach includes an adaptive hot parameter identification mechanism that dynamically identifies sensitive parameters (hot parameters) based on their update momentum, layer semantics, and potential label leakage risks. By focusing encryption on these hot parameters, FedAHPIP drastically reduces the privacy leakage surface. We also develop a personalized anchoring strategy that allows each agent to retain its critical parameters while assimilating knowledge from the global model, effectively balancing personalization and collaboration. Extensive experiments on benchmark and industrial datasets demonstrate that FedAHPIP achieves superior personalized accuracy under extreme non-IID settings, provides robust security against DLG attacks, and maintains minimal computational overhead. FedAHPIP thus offers a practical solution for trustworthy collective intelligence in smart manufacturing environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Information Integration","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 101087"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}