Distributed Coordination, Transportation & Localisation in Industry 4.0

Factories of the future must be agile to adapt to rapidly changing customer needs, market volatility and shortened product life cycles. This requires flexibility in hardware and software at distinct levels of the factory and manufacturing process: multipurpose machines with fast change-overs, easy to use reconfigurable software and distributed decision-making are key. This paper leverages the new Industry 4.0 design principles to cope with these...