Smart and Adaptive Manufacturing Systems

Innovation in manufacturing equipment happens at both component and system level, and includes developments in mechatronics, advanced monitoring and control systems. Innovative Information and Communication Technologies tools (ICTs), as well as the introduction of mechatronic components into key machine components, new and advanced structural materials or systems able to increase process stability by damping or suppressing vibrations, for example, contribute to achieve flexible, autonomous and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, able to respond to product customizations or to respond quickly to new requirements that may ask the markets.