Factories of the Future : The Italian Flagship Initiative

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents results relevant in the manufacturing research field, that are mainly aimed at closing the gap between the academic investigation and the industrial application, in collaboration with manufacturing companies. Several hardware and software prototypes represent the key outcome of the scientific contributions that can be grouped into five main areas, representing different perspectives of the factory domain: 1) Evolutionary and reconfigurable factories to cope with dynamic production contexts characterized by evolving demand and technologies, products and processes. 2) Factories for sustainable production, asking for energy efficiency, low environmental impact products and processes, new de-production logics, sustainable logistics. 3) Factories for the People who need new kinds of interactions between production processes, machines, and human beings to offer a more comfortable and stimulating working environment. 4) Factories for customized products that will be more and more tailored to the final user's needs and sold at cost-effective prices. 5) High performance factories to yield the due production while minimizing the inefficiencies caused by failures, management problems, maintenance. This books is primarily targeted to academic researchers and industrial practitioners in the manufacturing domain Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Italian Flagship Project: Factories of the Future (Walter Terkaj, Tullio Tolio)....Pages 3-35 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Model Predictive Control Tools for Evolutionary Plants (Andrea Cataldo, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Riccardo Scattolini)....Pages 39-56 Exploiting Modular Pallet Flexibility for Product and Process Co-evolution Through Zero-Point Clamping Systems (Marcello Urgo, Walter Terkaj, Franca Giannini, Stefania Pellegrinelli, Stefano Borgo)....Pages 57-82 Knowledge Based Modules for Adaptive Distributed Control Systems (Andrea Ballarino, Alessandro Brusaferri, Amedeo Cesta, Guido Chizzoli, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Luca Durante et al.)....Pages 83-108 Highly Evolvable E-waste Recycling Technologies and Systems (Giacomo Copani, Nicoletta Picone, Marcello Colledani, Monica Pepe, Alessandro Tasora)....Pages 109-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Innovative and Sustainable Production of Biopolymers (Simona Ortelli, Anna Luisa Costa, Cristian Torri, Chiara Samorì, Paola Galletti, Claudia Vineis et al.)....Pages 131-148 Integrated Technological Solutions for Zero Waste Recycling of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) (Giacomo Copani, Marcello Colledani, Alessandro Brusaferri, Antonio Pievatolo, Eugenio Amendola, Maurizio Avella et al.)....Pages 149-169 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Systemic Approach for the Definition of a Safer Human-Robot Interaction (Alessandro Pecora, Luca Maiolo, Antonio Minotti, Massimiliano Ruggeri, Luca Dariz, Matteo Giussani et al.)....Pages 173-196 Haptic Teleoperation of UAV Equipped with Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Detection and Identification of Radio-Active Materials in Industrial Plants (Jacopo Aleotti, Giorgio Micconi, Stefano Caselli, Giacomo Benassi, Nicola Zambelli, Manuele Bettelli et al.)....Pages 197-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Proposing a Tool for Supply Chain Configuration: An Application to Customised Production (Laura Macchion, Irene Marchiori, Andrea Vinelli, Rosanna Fornasiero)....Pages 217-231 Hospital Factory for Manufacturing Customised, Patient-Specific 3D Anatomo-Functional Models and Prostheses (Ettore Lanzarone, Stefania Marconi, Michele Conti, Ferdinando Auricchio, Irene Fassi, Francesco Modica et al.)....Pages 233-254 Polymer Nanostructuring by Two-Photon Absorption (Tommaso Zandrini, Raffaella Suriano, Carmela De Marco, Roberto Osellame, Stefano Turri, Francesca Bragheri)....Pages 255-273 Use of Nanostructured Coating to Improve Heat Exchanger Efficiency (Antonino Bonanno, Mariarosa Raimondo, Michele Pinelli)....Pages 275-292 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Surface Nano-structured Coating for Improved Performance of Axial Piston Pumps (Antonino Bonanno, Mariarosa Raimondo, Stefano Zapperi)....Pages 295-314 Monitoring Systems of an Electrospinning Plant for the Production of Composite Nanofibers (Luca Bonura, Giacomo Bianchi, Diego Omar Sanchez Ramirez, Riccardo Andrea Carletto, Alessio Varesano, Claudia Vineis et al.)....Pages 315-337 Plastic Lab-on-Chip for the Optical Manipulation of Single Cells (Rebeca Martínez Vázquez, Gianluca Trotta, Annalisa Volpe, Melania Paturzo, Francesco Modica, Vittorio Bianco et al.)....Pages 339-363 CIGS-Based Flexible Solar Cells (Edmondo Gilioli, Cristiano Albonetti, Francesco Bissoli, Matteo Bronzoni, Pasquale Ciccarelli, Stefano Rampino et al.)....Pages 365-382 Mechano-Chemistry of Rock Materials for the Industrial Production of New Geopolymeric Cements (Piero Ciccioli, Donatella Capitani, Sabrina Gualtieri, Elena Soragni, Girolamo Belardi, Paolo Plescia et al.)....Pages 383-407 Silk Fibroin Based Technology for Industrial Biomanufacturing (Valentina Benfenati, Stefano Toffanin, Camilla Chieco, Anna Sagnella, Nicola Di Virgilio, Tamara Posati et al.)....Pages 409-430 Front Matter ....Pages 431-431 Key Research Priorities for Factories of the Future—Part I: Missions (Tullio Tolio, Giacomo Copani, Walter Terkaj)....Pages 433-474 Key Research Priorities for Factories of the Future—Part II: Pilot Plants and Funding Mechanisms (Tullio Tolio, Giacomo Copani, Walter Terkaj)....Pages 475-494