Robotic Manufacturing Systems Using Internet of Things:
New Era of Facing Pandemics
Abstract
Robotics made a tremendous transformation in manufacturing by facilitating
manufacturing operations. By evolution of Industry 4.0 and its related technologies,
a new trend of digitalization in advanced manufacturing systems occurred. Internet
of Things (IoT) in manufacturing environments, enables manufacturing related
devices to communicate with each other and with the control unit to send data and
receive manufacturing rules accordingly. Cooperation between robots and IoT
provides new opportunities to streamline the production processes in an efficient
and cost-effective manner. The integration of robotic agents with IoT provide the
novel concept of the Internet of Robotic Things developing new possibilities in
various industrial fields specifically in facing new pandemics. Human operators are
not efficient anymore in pandemics leading to stoppage of production systems and
a huge amount of lost sale, back orders, and economic loss. Here we emphasize
on the new era of IoT robotic manufacturing in pandemics and inauguration of
modern aspects modeling and decision making.
Short Biography
Hamed Fazlollahtabar earned a BSc and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He received his PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2015, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in the area of reliability engineering for complex systems in 2017. He currently works in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Damghan University, Iran, and is on the editorial boards of several journals and on the technical committees of several conferences. His research interests are robotic production systems, reliability engineering, supply chain planning, and business intelligence and analytics. He has published more than 280 research papers and eight books.
