Industrial manufacturing companies simultaneously work to improve the quality and reduce cost in their production processes. The level of quality of what is being produced is essential to succeed. Several types of techniques and applications are used to collect information from manufacturing...

The need of analysis-oriented structure for runtime data in manufacturing process control units such as PLCs is identified and discussed from an engineering point of view and based on an industrial case. This is evaluated as an important building block for obtaining data from production equipment...

Since 2011 when it was announced, Industry 4.0 has inspired a series of governmental and private programs worldwide. Nevertheless, it is an emerging research field and the academia calls for further explorative research, including on the enablers and inhibitors of Industry 4.0 implementation at...