Publications by Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Virtual metrology as an approach for product quality estimation in Industry 4.0: a systematic review and integrative conceptual framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Virtual metrology (VM) involves estimating a product's quality directly from production process data without physically measuring it. This enables the product quality of each unit of production to be monitored in real time, while preserving the process eff ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Industrial ontologies for interoperability in agile and resilient manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Ontologies provide an opportunity to tackle the interoperability challenge in digital manufacturing. Although ontologies have been used in numerous industrial projects, the problem of semantic interoperability in the industry is still unresolved. One reaso ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Data-based model maintenance in the era of industry 4.0: A methodology

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Antoine Pélissier, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Despite the high number of investments for data-based models in the expansion of Industry 4.0, too little effort has been made to ensure the maintenance of those models. In a data-streaming environment, data-based models are subject to concept drifts. A co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Cost-Based Decision Support System: A Dynamic Cost Estimation of Key Performance Indicators in Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

An attempt is made to translate five generic key performance indicators (KPIs) into a continuous real-time cost function in a batch order-based manufacturing environment. The challenge of controlling and optimizing resource utilization, production efficien ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Zero-defect manufacturing the approach for higher manufacturing sustainability in the era of industry 4.0: a position paper

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

For manufacturing companies, quality management is a key feature for increasing the competitiveness, productivity, profitability, and sustainability of their systems. Quality improvement (QI) methods aim to achieve high-quality parts without reducing perfo ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

A Generic Methodology for Calculating Rescheduling Time for Multiple Unexpected Events in the Era of Zero Defect Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos, Xiaochen Zheng

Nowadays, the manufacturing industry is constantly changing. Production systems must operate in a highly dynamic environment where unexpected events could occur and create disruption, making rescheduling inevitable for manufacturing companies. Rescheduling ...

2021

A generic methodology and a digital twin for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM) performance mapping towards design for ZDM

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Over recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen constant growth and change. From one side, it has been affected by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). From the other side, it has had to enhance its ability to meet higher customer expect ...

2021

Predictive Maintenance Key Control Parameters for Achieving Efficient Zero Defect Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Predictive maintenance is a subbranch of Zero Defect Manufacturing concept. The goal is to achieve higher quality at the final product with the most optimum and efficient way. Predictive maintenance may be applied with various alternative ways for achievin ...

Elsevier2021

A dynamic scheduling tool and a methodology for creating digital twin of manufacturing systems for achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Nowadays manufacturing environment is highly volatile and rapidly changing as the need of products is increasing exponentially, due to the fact that Product Life Cycle is shortened and therefore more products are required to be manufactured or remanufactur ...

EPFL2021

Comparison Between Product and Process Oriented Zero-Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) Approaches

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Contemporary manufacturing companies pay a lot of attention to product quality as this aspect affects directly their competitiveness, productivity and the reputation of the company. Traditional quality improvement methods such as Six Sigma, Lean etc. seems ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021