Advanced manufacturing and complexity science

Lier, Ben van

doi:10.1109/icstcc.2015.7321307

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“…On the other hand, the so-called advanced manufacturing, which describes the use of creative technologies and techniques to enhance business competitiveness, is regarded as an important component of modern engineering education curricula [16,42]. As such, STEM departments strive to cope with new manufacturing technologies that become available and develop their laboratories in order to provide their students with adequate instruction and experiences directly linked to real-world situations.…”

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Using Open Tools to Transform Retired Equipment into Powerful Engineering Education Instruments: A Smart Agri-IoT Control Example

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People getting involved with modern agriculture should become familiar with and able to exploit the plethora of cutting-edge technologies that have recently appeared in this area. The contribution of the educational robotics in demystifying new scientific fields for K-12 students is remarkable, but things become more challenging when trying to discover efficient practices for higher education. Indeed, there is an apparent need for pilot examples facilitating students’ professional skills acquisition and thus matching the potential of the actual systems used in the modern agricultural premises. In this regard, this work discuses laboratory experiences while implementing an automatic airflow control system of convincing size and role capable for remote configuration and monitoring. This non-conventional robotic example exploits retired electromechanical equipment, from an old farm, and revives it using modern widely available microcontrollers, smart phones/tablets, network transceivers, motor drivers, and some cheap and/or custom sensors. The contribution of the corresponding software parts to this transformation is of crucial importance for the success of the whole system. Thankfully, these parts are implemented using easy-to-use programming tools, of open and free nature at most, that are suitable for the pairing credit-card-sized computer systems. The proposed solution is exhibiting modularity and scalability and assists students and future professionals to better understand the role of key elements participating in the digital transformation of the agricultural sector. The whole approach has been evaluated from both technical and educational perspective and delivered interesting results that are also reported.

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“…Access to the receiving systems and incorporation in the complexity within this system is described by Luhmann with the term 'interpenetration'. According to van Lier (2010van Lier ( , 2013van Lier ( , 2013 Luhmann uses this term to indicate the special manner in which systems in the sending system's environment of the contribute to the design of the receiving system. Luhmann does not apply the term interpenetration until the system makes its own complexity available for construction by another system.…”

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From High Frequency Trading to Self-Organizing Moral Machines

Lier¹

2016

International Journal of Technoethics

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Technology is responsible for major systemic changes within the global financial sector in general and particularly in the trade in financial products. The global financial sector has already developed into a comprehensive network of mutually connected people and computers that are constantly evaluating and approving millions of transactions. Algorithms play a crucial role within this global financial network. An algorithm is in essence merely a set of instructions developed by one or more people with the intention of having these instructions performed by a machine such as a computer, a software robot or a physical robot in order to realize an ideal result. As part of a development in which we as human beings have ever higher expectations of algorithms and these algorithms become ever more autonomous in their actions, we cannot avoid including possibilities in these algorithms that enable ethical or more considerations. To develop this ethical or moral consideration, we need a kind of ethical framework which can be used for developing algorithms. With the development of such a framework we can start to think about what we as human beings consider to be moral action by machines within the financial sector based on such a framework.

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“…Frei et al [45] made an attempt to show the self organization and emergence of evolvable production system. van Lier [46] tried to interpret the autonomous phenomenon existing in based on complexity science, and [47] further investigated whether complexity science can support the development and elaboration of an industrial info sphere. Intepe and Koc [48] foucused on the technologies that related to the behavior of subsystems.…”

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Linking Emergence to the Complex Product System

Wang

Binxiu

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IEEE Access

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The increasing complexity of product calls for manufacturing integration, while in turn high integration brings the problems of system level complexity. This paper proposes that complex product system (CoPS) should be managed as a dynamical system. The dynamical characteristics of CoPS are discussed from the perspective of emergence. A conceptual model is established to analyze the cause, process and result of the CoPS emergence. The mechanism of inner state emergence in CoPS is interpreted by formal languages to provide a point view of state space. It is concluded that the behavior of CoPS, especially the complexity, exhibits the 'entity is greater than the sum of the parts' phenomena when satisfying given necessary conditions. A novel methodology is then established to evaluate this emergence-based complexity. The feasibility and application of the novel complexity measurement is verified by an example of turbine housing production process. Further discussions are made on how to manage the potential emerging complexity based on the proposed measurement.

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Advanced manufacturing and complexity science

Cited by 6 publications

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Using Open Tools to Transform Retired Equipment into Powerful Engineering Education Instruments: A Smart Agri-IoT Control Example

Using Open Tools to Transform Retired Equipment into Powerful Engineering Education Instruments: A Smart Agri-IoT Control Example

From High Frequency Trading to Self-Organizing Moral Machines

Linking Emergence to the Complex Product System

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