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...

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...