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    • Applications of Digital Twin across industries: a review 

      Singh, Maulshree; Srivastava, Rupal; Fuenmayor, Evert; Kuts, Vladimir; Qiao, Yuansong; Murray, Niall; Devine, Declan (MDPI, 2022-06-14)
      One of the most promising technologies that is driving digitalization in several industries is Digital Twin (DT). DT refers to the digital replica or model of any physical object (physical twin). What differentiates DT ...
    • Blockchain-empowered digital twins collaboration: smart transportation use case. 

      Sahal, Radhya; Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Brown, Kenneth N.; O'Shea, Donna; McCarthy, Connor; Guizani, Mohsen (2021-09-09)
      Digital twins (DTs) is a promising technology in the revolution of the industry and essential for Industry 4.0. DTs play a vital role in improving distributed manufacturing, providing up-to-date operational data representation ...
    • CNC Machines Integration in Smart Factories using OPC UA 

      Martins, André; Lucas, João; Costelha, Hugo; Neves, Carlos (Elsevier, 2023-06-07)
      This paper examines the idea of Industry 4.0 from the perspective of the molds industry, a vital industry in today’s industrial panorama. Several technologies, particularly in the area of machining equipment, have been ...
    • Digital advantage framework for growth and competitiveness in small and medium enterprises 

      Chimello, Ismael; Liston, Paul; Byrne, P.J. (Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)
      Many aspects of daily life have dramatically changed in recent years with the adoption of new technologies, which is reflected in the business world in what is referred to as the fourth industrial revolution (or Industry ...
    • Digital twin: origin to future 

      Singh, Maulshree; Fuenmayor, Evert; Hinchy, Eoin P.; Qiao, Yuansong; Murray, Niall (MDPI, 2021-05-24)
      Digital Twin (DT) refers to the virtual copy or model of any physical entity (physical twin) both of which are interconnected via exchange of data in real time. Conceptually, a DT mimics the state of its physical twin ...
    • Digital twins collaboration for automatic erratic operational data detection in industry 4.0 

      Sahal, Radhya; Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Breslin, John G.; Brown, Kenneth N.; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (MDPI, 2021-04-02)
      Digital twin (DT) plays a pivotal role in the vision of Industry 4.0. The idea is that the real product and its virtual counterpart are twins that travel a parallel journey from design and development to production and ...
    • Green internet of things using UAVs in B5G networks: a review of applications and strategies 

      Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Afghah, Fatemeh; Sahal, Radhya; Hawbani, Ammar; Al-qaness, Mohammad A. A.; Lee, Brian; Guizani, Mohsen (Elsevier, 2021-04-03)
      Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) present a promising advanced technology that can enhance people life quality and smartness of cities dramatically and increase overall economic efficiency. UAVs have attained a ...
    • Industry 4.0 smart reconfigurable manufacturing machines 

      Morgan, Jeff; Halton, Mark; Qiao, Yuangsong (Elsevier, 2021-04-07)
      This paper provides a fundamental research review of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), which uniquely explores the state-of-the-art in distributed and decentralized machine control and machine intelligence. The ...
    • Industry 4.0 towards Forestsry 4.0: fire dection use case 

      Sahal, Radhya; Alsamhi, Saeed H.; Breslin, John G.; Ali, Muhammad Intizar (MDPI, 2021-01-20)
      Forestry 4.0 is inspired by the Industry 4.0 concept, which plays a vital role in the next industrial generation revolution. It is ushering in a new era for efficient and sustainable forest management. Environmental ...
    • Machine learning for process monitoring and control of hot-melt extrusion: current state of the art and future directions 

      Munir, Nimra; Nugent, Michael J.D.; Whitaker, Darren; McAfee, Marion (MDPI, 2021-09-09)
      In the last few decades, hot-melt extrusion (HME) has emerged as a rapidly growing technology in the pharmaceutical industry, due to its various advantages over other fabrication routes for drug delivery systems. After ...
    • A quality of experience evaluation of augmented reality for procedure assistance and training in Industry 4.0 

      Hynes, Eoghan; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)
      Augmented Reality ( is a technology that superimposes computer generated images over the user’s real world view AR is a key technology to increase worker utility in Industry 4 0 in two ways training for repeatable ...
    • Quality of experience of virtual reality in industry 4.0. 

      Concannon, David; Murray, Niall; Flynn, Ronan (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)
      VR (Virtual Reality) is still a largely novel form of multimedia which has largely been confined to the area of entertainment. As a technology that allows one to freely explore and interact with virtual environments much ...