The effectiveness of the maintenance scheduling decision depends on the availability of information regarding the remaining useful life of the asset in addition to the asset operating schedule and spares and resources required to carry out the maintenance action. In this paper, we illustrate an...

Although RFID is seen by many as a revolutionary enabler of automated data capture, confusion still remains as to how manufacturing organisations can identify cost-effective opportunities for its use. Managers view promotional business case estimates as unjustified, simulation based analysis and...

Industrialists have few example processes they can benchmark against in order to choose a multi-agent development kit. In this paper we present a review of commercial and academic agent tools with the aim of selecting one for developing an intelligent, self-serving asset architecture. In doing...

The notion of the intelligent product and its implications over the product lifecycle has gathered much interest over the years with increasing numbers of research projects. In this paper we revisit the intelligent product and review research that followed the intelligent product blueprint. We...

The authors describe a self-serving asset built on an intelligent, self-aware agent platform that maximizes its service life by contacting, selecting, and procuring service providers autonomously.