Cyber-Physical Systems based smart manufacturing of disinfectants: A need, and solution driven by COVID-19 Pandemic

Iqbal, Faiz, Semwal, Tushar and Stokes, Adam (2023) Cyber-Physical Systems based smart manufacturing of disinfectants: A need, and solution driven by COVID-19 Pandemic. In: FAIM 2023 Portugal, 18-22 June 2023, Porto Portugal.

Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_14

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Abstract

Cyber-physical systems and Industry-4.0 have made smart manufacturing possible. The multi-national companies were able to quickly adapt and cope with changing times, but the micro small-scale enterprises (m-SMEs) were at crossroads to adopt new technology due to extensive costs involved. This gap of no existing solutions for micro-SMEs is the result of literature survey for this work. Then the COVID-19 pandemic made it extremely difficult for micro-SMEs to survive. This paper implements a smart manufacturing solution for production facility at one such micro-SME. Pre-pandemic, their facility had enough production to satisfy the demand, but pandemic overwhelmed their production with rapid rise in demand. The main goal for this study is to make the micro-SME cope this unprecedented rise in demand. The production facility was upgraded, and smart features were incorporated based on cyber-physical production systems framework to predict demand and transform a manual manufacturing into smart manufacturing. With more than one product being produced, optimum production was achieved avoiding over/underproduction for different products given the limited storage capacity available with the micro-SMEs.

Keywords:smart manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Digitalization; Industry 4.0, COVID-19
Subjects:H Engineering > H713 Production Processes
H Engineering > H700 Production and Manufacturing Engineering
Divisions:COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND SCIENCE > School of Engineering
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ID Code:53326
Deposited On:16 Feb 2023 14:39

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