Navigating disruptive crises through service-led growth: The impact of COVID-19 on Italian manufacturing firms
M. Rapaccini, N. Saccani, C. Kowalkowski
et al.
This study draws on an extensive survey and interview data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The respondents were executives of industrials firms whose factories, warehouses, and headquarters are located in Northern Italy. This is undoubtedly the European region first and most extensively affected by the pandemic, and the government implemented radical lockdown measures, banning nonessential travel and mandating the shutdown of all nonessential businesses. Several major effects on both product and service businesses are highlighted, including the disruption of field-service operations and supply networks. This study also highlights the increased importance of servitization business models and the acceleration of digital transformation and advanced services. To help firms navigate through the crisis and be better positioned after the pandemic, the authors present a four-stage crisis management model (calamity, quick & dirty, restart, and adapt), which provides insights and critical actions that should be taken to cope with the expected short and long-term implications of the crisis. Finally, this study discusses how servitization can enhance resilience for future crises—providing a set of indicators on the presumed role of, and impact on, service operations in relation to what executives expect to be the “next normal.”
Deep Learning for Smart Industry: Efficient Manufacture Inspection System With Fog Computing
Liangzhi Li, K. Ota, M. Dong
With the rapid development of Internet of things devices and network infrastructure, there have been a lot of sensors adopted in the industrial productions, resulting in a large size of data. One of the most popular examples is the manufacture inspection, which is to detect the defects of the products. In order to implement a robust inspection system with higher accuracy, we propose a deep learning based classification model in this paper, which can find the possible defective products. As there may be many assembly lines in one factory, one huge problem in this scenario is how to process such big data in real time. Therefore, we design our system with the concept of fog computing. By offloading the computation burden from the central server to the fog nodes, the system obtains the ability to deal with extremely large data. There are two obvious advantages in our system. The first one is that we adapt the convolutional neural network model to the fog computing environment, which significantly improves its computing efficiency. The other one is that we work out an inspection model, which can simultaneously indicate the defect type and its degree. The experiments well prove that the proposed method is robust and efficient.
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A Manufacturing Big Data Solution for Active Preventive Maintenance
J. Wan, Shenglong Tang, Di Li
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Blockchain-Based Reliable and Efficient Certificateless Signature for IIoT Devices
Weizheng Wang, Hao Xu, M. Alazab
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Nowadays, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has remarkably transformed our personal lifestyles and society operations into a novel digital mode, which brings tremendous associations with all walks of life, such as intelligent logistics, smart grid, and smart city. Moreover, with the rapid increase of IIoT devices, a large amount of data is swapped between heterogeneous sensors and devices every moment. This trend increases the risk of eavesdropping and hijacking attacks in communication channels, so maintaining data privacy and security becomes two notable concerns at present. Recently, based on the mechanism of the Schnorr signature, a more secure and lightweight certificateless signature (CLS) protocol is popular for the resource-constrained IIoT protocol design. Nevertheless, we found most of the existing CLS schemes are susceptible to several common security weaknesses such as man-in-the-middle attacks, key generation center compromised attacks, and distributed denial of service attacks. To tackle the challenges mentioned previously, in this article, we propose a novel pairing-free certificateless scheme that utilizes the state-of-the-art blockchain technique and smart contract to construct a novel reliable and efficient CLS scheme. Then, we simulate the Type-I and Type-II adversaries to verify the trustworthiness of our scheme. Security analysis as well as performance evaluation outcomes prove that our design can hold more reliable security assurance with less computation cost (i.e., reduced by around 40.0% at most) and communication cost (i.e., reduced by around 94.7% at most) than other related schemes.
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Visual Perception Enabled Industry Intelligence: State of the Art, Challenges and Prospects
Jiachen Yang, Chenguang Wang, Bin Jiang
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Visual perception refers to the process of organizing, identifying, and interpreting visual information in environmental awareness and understanding. With the rapid progress of multimedia acquisition technology, research on visual perception has been a hot topic in the academical field and industrial applications. Especially after the introduction of artificial intelligence theory, intelligent visual perception has been widely used to promote the development of industrial production towards intelligence. In this article, we review the previous research and application of visual perception in different industrial fields such as product surface defect detection, intelligent agricultural production, intelligent driving, image synthesis, and event reconstruction. The applications basically cover most of the intelligent visual perception processing technologies. Through this survey, it will provide a comprehensive reference for research on this direction. Finally, this article also summarizes the current challenges of visual perception and predicts its future development trends.
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A Blockchain-Based Solution for Enhancing Security and Privacy in Smart Factory
J. Wan, Jiapeng Li, Muhammad Imran
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Through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a smart factory has entered the booming period. However, as the number of nodes and network size become larger, the traditional IIoT architecture can no longer provide effective support for such enormous system. Therefore, we introduce the Blockchain architecture, which is an emerging scheme for constructing the distributed networks, to reshape the traditional IIoT architecture. First, the major problems of the traditional IIoT architecture are analyzed, and the existing improvements are summarized. Second, we introduce a security and privacy model to help design the Blockchain-based architecture. On this basis, we decompose and reorganize the original IIoT architecture to form a new multicenter partially decentralized architecture. Then, we introduce some relative security technologies to improve and optimize the new architecture. After that we design the data interaction process and the algorithms of the architecture. Finally, we use an automatic production platform to discuss the specific implementation. The experimental results show that the proposed architecture provides better security and privacy protection than the traditional architecture. Thus, the proposed architecture represents a significant improvement of the original architecture, which provides a new direction for the IIoT development.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Computation Offloading in Digital Twin Networks
Yueyue Dai, Ke Zhang, Sabita Maharjan
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The rapid development of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) requires industrial production towards digitalization to improve network efficiency. Digital Twin is a promising technology to empower the digital transformation of IIoT by creating virtual models of physical objects. However, the provision of network efficiency in IIoT is very challenging due to resource-constrained devices, stochastic tasks, and resources heterogeneity. Distributed resources in IIoT networks can be efficiently exploited through computation offloading to reduce energy consumption while enhancing data processing efficiency. In this article, we first propose a new paradigm digital twin network to build network topology and the stochastic task arrival model in IIoT systems. Then, we formulate the stochastic computation offloading and resource allocation problem to minimize the long-term energy efficiency. As the formulated problem is a stochastic programming problem, we leverage Lyapunov optimization technique to transform the original problem into a deterministic per-time slot problem. Finally, we present asynchronous actor-critic algorithm to find the optimal stochastic computation offloading policy. Illustrative results demonstrate that our proposed scheme is able to significantly outperforms the benchmarks.
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Utilizing Industry 4.0 on the Construction Site: Challenges and Opportunities
C. Turner, J. Oyekan, L. Stergioulas
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In recent years, a step change has been seen in the rate of adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies by manufacturers and industrial organizations alike. This article discusses the current state of the art in the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies within the construction industry. Increasing complexity in onsite construction projects coupled with the need for higher productivity is leading to increased interest in the potential use of Industry 4.0 technologies. This article discusses the relevance of the following key Industry 4.0 technologies to construction: data analytics and artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, building information management, sensors and wearables, digital twin, and industrial connectivity. Industrial connectivity is a key aspect as it ensures that all Industry 4.0 technologies are interconnected allowing the full benefits to be realized. This article also presents a research agenda for the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies within the construction sector, a three-phase use of intelligent assets from the point of manufacture up to after build, and a four-staged R&D process for the implementation of smart wearables in a digital enhanced construction site.
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Recent Advances on Fuzzy-Model-Based Nonlinear Networked Control Systems: A Survey
Jianbin Qiu, Huijun Gao, S. Ding
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Smart production planning and control in the Industry 4.0 context: A systematic literature review
Adauto Bueno, Moacir Godinho Filho, A. Frank
Abstract Scholars and practitioners have considered Industry 4.0 a comprehensive set of emerging technologies that establish a new industrial perspective based on the “Internet of Things”. As smart manufacturing is at the core of the Industry 4.0 concept, production planning and control (PPC) should play a key role in Industry 4.0 activities. Prior research has mainly focused on technological issues of Industry 4.0, while little is known about how PPC is influenced by digital capabilities and how it operates in this new context. We conduct a systematic literature review to develop an analytical framework that explains how PPC in the Industry 4.0 context is influenced by smart capabilities from five base technologies (Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Big Data and Analytics/Artificial Intelligence, and Additive Manufacturing), and how this is related to manufacturing system performance indicators, and environmental factors. The review includes studies from 2011 (when the Industry 4.0 concept was coined) to October 2019. Our findings provide a complete list of 18 smart capabilities (e.g., real-time capabilities, adaptability and dynamicity, visibility and traceability, autonomy, smart scheduling, PPC-as-a-service); 13 performance indicators (e.g., manufacturing flexibility, agility, reliability); and environmental factor conditions (e.g., product, demand, and manufacturing process). We also propose a future agenda with 10 research directions for PPC's study in the Industry 4.0 context.
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Exploring Organizational Readiness and Ecosystem Coordination for Industrial XR
Hasan Tarik Akbaba, Efe Bozkir, Anna Puhl
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Extended Reality (XR) offers transformative potential for industrial support, training, and maintenance; yet, widespread adoption lags despite demonstrated occupational value and hardware maturity. Organizations successfully implement XR in isolated pilots, yet struggle to scale these into sustained operational deployment, a phenomenon we characterize as the ``Pilot Trap.'' This study examines this phenomenon through a qualitative ecosystem analysis of 17 expert interviews across technology providers, solution integrators, and industrial adopters. We identify a ``Great Inversion'' in adoption barriers: critical constraints have shifted from technological maturity to organizational readiness (e.g., change management, key performance indicator alignment, and political resistance). While hardware ergonomics and usability remain relevant, our findings indicate that systemic misalignments between stakeholder incentives are the primary cause of friction preventing enterprise integration. We conclude that successful industrial XR adoption requires a shift from technology-centric piloting to a problem-first, organizational transformation approach, necessitating explicit ecosystem-level coordination.
Class-Imbalance Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Decentralized Fault Diagnosis With Biometric Authentication
Shixiang Lu, Zhiwei Gao, Qifa Xu
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Privacy protection as a major concern of the industrial big data enabling entities makes the massive safety-critical operation data of a wind turbine unable to exert its great value because of the threat of privacy leakage. How to improve the diagnostic accuracy of decentralized machines without data transfer remains an open issue; especially these machines are almost accompanied by skewed class distribution in the real industries. In this study, a class-imbalanced privacy-preserving federated learning framework for the fault diagnosis of a decentralized wind turbine is proposed. Specifically, a biometric authentication technique is first employed to ensure that only legitimate entities can access private data and defend against malicious attacks. Then, the federated learning with two privacy-enhancing techniques enables high potential privacy and security in low-trust systems. Then, a solely gradient-based self-monitor scheme is integrated to acknowledge the global imbalance information for class-imbalanced fault diagnosis. We leverage a real-world industrial wind turbine dataset to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. By comparison with five state-of-the-art approaches and two nonparametric tests, the superiority of the proposed framework in imbalanced classification is ascertained. An ablation study indicates that the proposed framework can maintain high diagnostic performance while enhancing privacy protection.
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Wi-Fi Rate Adaptation for Moving Equipment in Industrial Environments
Pietro Chiavassa, Stefano Scanzio, Gianluca Cena
Wi-Fi is currently considered one of the most promising solutions for interconnecting mobile equipment (e.g., autonomous mobile robots and active exoskeletons) in industrial environments. However, relability requirements imposed by the industrial context, such as ensuring bounded transmission latency, are a major challenge for over-the-air communication. One of the aspects of Wi-Fi technology that greatly affects the probability of a packet reaching its destination is the selection of the appropriate transmission rate. Rate adaptation algorithms are in charge of this operation, but their design and implementation are not regulated by the IEEE 802.11 standard. One of the most popular solutions, available as open source, is Minstrel, which is the default choice for the Linux Kernel. In this paper, Minstrel performance is evaluated for both static and mobility scenarios. Our analysis focuses on metrics of interest for industrial contexts, i.e., latency and packet loss ratio, and serves as a preliminary evaluation for the future development of enhanced rate adaptation algorithms based on centralized digital twins.
LISTEN: Lightweight Industrial Sound-representable Transformer for Edge Notification
Changheon Han, Yun Seok Kang, Yuseop Sim
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Deep learning-based machine listening is broadening the scope of industrial acoustic analysis for applications like anomaly detection and predictive maintenance, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and reliability. Nevertheless, its reliance on large, task-specific annotated datasets for every new task limits widespread implementation on shop floors. While emerging sound foundation models aim to alleviate data dependency, they are too large and computationally expensive, requiring cloud infrastructure or high-end hardware that is impractical for on-site, real-time deployment. We address this gap with LISTEN (Lightweight Industrial Sound-representable Transformer for Edge Notification), a kilobyte-sized industrial sound foundation model. Using knowledge distillation, LISTEN runs in real-time on low-cost edge devices. On benchmark downstream tasks, it performs nearly identically to its much larger parent model, even when fine-tuned with minimal datasets and training resource. Beyond the model itself, we demonstrate its real-world utility by integrating LISTEN into a complete machine monitoring framework on an edge device with an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensor and system, validating its performance and generalization capabilities on a live manufacturing shop floor.
Experiences Applying Lean R&D in Industry-Academia Collaboration Projects
Marcos Kalinowski, Lucas Romao, Ariane Rodrigues
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Lean R&D has been used at PUC-Rio to foster industry-academia collaboration in innovation projects across multiple sectors. This industrial experience paper describes recent experiences and evaluation results from applying Lean R&D in partnership with Petrobras in the oil and gas sector and Americanas in retail. The findings highlight Lean R&D's effectiveness in transforming ideas into meaningful business outcomes. Based on responses from 57 participants - including team members, managers, and sponsors - the assessment indicates that stakeholders find the structured phases of Lean R&D well-suited to innovation projects and endorse the approach. Although acknowledging that successful collaboration relies on various factors, this industrial experience positions Lean R&D as a promising framework for industry-academia projects focused on achieving rapid, impactful results for industry partners.
Prediksi Financial Distress Model Almant Z-Score, Kinerja Keuangan dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Nilai Perusahaan
Yuli Anita Silviyani, Alyssa Risthi, A. Afandi
The aim of this research is to predict financial distress conditions using the Almant Z-Score model and to test the influence of financial distress and financial performance on company value in basic industrial and chemical sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2017-2021 period. The sample selection technique is purposive sampling method, research data is secondary data obtained from the Indonesia Capital Market Directory for the period 2017 - 2021. The data analysis method used is multiple regression analysis with the eviews 12.0 application tool. The research results show that financial distress and debt to equity ratio (DER) partially do not have a significant effect on company value. Meanwhile, financial performance as proxied by return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) partially has a positive and significant effect on company value.
Exploring Large Vision-Language Models for Robust and Efficient Industrial Anomaly Detection
Kun Qian, Tianyu Sun, Wenhong Wang
Industrial anomaly detection (IAD) plays a crucial role in the maintenance and quality control of manufacturing processes. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, Vision-Language Anomaly Detection via Contrastive Cross-Modal Training (CLAD), which leverages large vision-language models (LVLMs) to improve both anomaly detection and localization in industrial settings. CLAD aligns visual and textual features into a shared embedding space using contrastive learning, ensuring that normal instances are grouped together while anomalies are pushed apart. Through extensive experiments on two benchmark industrial datasets, MVTec-AD and VisA, we demonstrate that CLAD outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both image-level anomaly detection and pixel-level anomaly localization. Additionally, we provide ablation studies and human evaluation to validate the importance of key components in our method. Our approach not only achieves superior performance but also enhances interpretability by accurately localizing anomalies, making it a promising solution for real-world industrial applications.
Control Industrial Automation System with Large Language Model Agents
Yuchen Xia, Nasser Jazdi, Jize Zhang
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Traditional industrial automation systems require specialized expertise to operate and complex reprogramming to adapt to new processes. Large language models offer the intelligence to make them more flexible and easier to use. However, LLMs' application in industrial settings is underexplored. This paper introduces a framework for integrating LLMs to achieve end-to-end control of industrial automation systems. At the core of the framework are an agent system designed for industrial tasks, a structured prompting method, and an event-driven information modeling mechanism that provides real-time data for LLM inference. The framework supplies LLMs with real-time events on different context semantic levels, allowing them to interpret the information, generate production plans, and control operations on the automation system. It also supports structured dataset creation for fine-tuning on this downstream application of LLMs. Our contribution includes a formal system design, proof-of-concept implementation, and a method for generating task-specific datasets for LLM fine-tuning and testing. This approach enables a more adaptive automation system that can respond to spontaneous events, while allowing easier operation and configuration through natural language for more intuitive human-machine interaction. We provide demo videos and detailed data on GitHub: https://github.com/YuchenXia/LLM4IAS.
The Impact of Industry Agglomeration on Land Use Efficiency: Insights from China's Yangtze River Delta
Hambur Wang
This study investigates the impact of industrial agglomeration on land use intensification in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomeration. Utilizing spatial econometric models, we conduct an empirical analysis of the clustering phenomena in manufacturing and producer services. By employing the Location Quotient (LQ) and the Relative Diversification Index (RDI), we assess the degree of industrial specialization and diversification in the YRD. Additionally, Global Moran's I and Local Moran's I scatter plots are used to reveal the spatial distribution characteristics of land use intensification. Our findings indicate that industrial agglomeration has complex effects on land use intensification, showing positive, negative, and inverted U-shaped impacts. These synergistic effects exhibit significant regional variations across the YRD. The study provides both theoretical foundations and empirical support for the formulation of land management and industrial development policies. In conclusion, we propose policy recommendations aimed at optimizing industrial structures and enhancing land use efficiency to foster sustainable development in the YRD region.
Assessing the Requirements for Industry Relevant Quantum Computation
Anna M. Krol, Marvin Erdmann, Ewan Munro
et al.
In this paper, we use open-source tools to perform quantum resource estimation to assess the requirements for industry-relevant quantum computation. Our analysis uses the problem of industrial shift scheduling in manufacturing and the Quantum Industrial Shift Scheduling algorithm. We base our figures of merit on current technology, as well as theoretical high-fidelity scenarios for superconducting qubit platforms. We find that the execution time of gate and measurement operations determines the overall computational runtime more strongly than the system error rates. Moreover, achieving a quantum speedup would not only require low system error rates ($10^{-6}$ or better), but also measurement operations with an execution time below 10ns. This rules out the possibility of near-term quantum advantage for this use case, and suggests that significant technological or algorithmic progress will be needed before such an advantage can be achieved.