ICT for Advanced Manufacturing

Information and communication technologies (ICT), automation, and robotics remain key sciences of the 21st century. Currently, manufacturing enterprises are facing challenges with regard to new concepts such as Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, Cyber-physical Systems or Cloud-based Manufacturing. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an emerging paradigm in today’s control industry comprising Internet-enabled cyber-physical devices with the ability to link to new interconnection technologies. Under this perspective, new industrial cyber-physical “things” can be accessible and available from remote locations; information on them can be processed and stored in distributed locations favouring cooperation and coordination to achieve high performance in real time. The paper presents the state-of-the-art in research, development and education in new information a communications technologies for advanced manufacturing based on intelligent modelling and control methods, and their applications with the focus on new trends declared in Industry 4.0.