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Decision Support For Smart Manufacturing, Mahdi Fathi, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Panos M. Pardalos, Daniel J. Power
Decision Support For Smart Manufacturing, Mahdi Fathi, Marzieh Khakifirooz, Panos M. Pardalos, Daniel J. Power
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A post-industrial revolution is encouraging the deployment of novel concepts both for designing smart factories and for creating a new generation of monitoring, control and man-machine collaboration systems. In general, companies are embracing an era of smart manufacturing built upon Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud and Cognitive computing. Using digital technologies with advanced manufacturing tools can provide opportunities for building smart decision support systems (DSS) to improve manufacturing analysis, monitoring, output, and performance. Despite the potential of improved Decision Support Systems (DSS), the major challenge is successfully adapting smart manufacturing processes to use new …