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

Product Quality Improvement Policies in Industry 4.0: Characteristics, Enabling Factors, Barriers, and Evolution Toward Zero Defect Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

In the competitive market of manufacturing, quality is a criterion of primary importance in order to win market share. Quality improvement must be coupled with performance point of view. Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Manageme ...

2020

Zero defect manufacturing: state-of-the-art review, shortcomings and future directions in research

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Paul Arthur Adrien Pierre Dreyfus, Gökan May, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

This paper provides a literature review on zero defect manufacturing based on the content analysis performed for 280 research articles published from 1987 to 2018 in a variety of academic journals and conference proceedings. The review summarises the state ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

A Computational Method for Identifying the Optimum Buffer Size in the Era of Zero Defect Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Ali Boujemaoui, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Decreasing defects, waste time, meeting customer demand and being adaptable are the goals of a Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) strategy. Scheduling is an important tool to perform that. It should take in account buffer size allocation. In this study, a met ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

A hybrid framework for industrial data storage and exploitation

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Tourkogiorgis

In this paper a hybrid framework is illustrated, with a software and hardware integration strategy, for an industrial platform that exploits features from a Relational Database (RDB) and Triplestore using the blackboard architectural pattern, ensuring effi ...

Elsevier2019

A Method for Converting Current Data to RDF in the Era of Industry 4.0

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Damiano Nunzio Arena, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Tourkogiorgis, Marlène Hildebrand-Ehrhardt

In the past two decades, the use of ontologies has been proven to be an effective tool for enriching existing information systems in the digital data modelling domain and exploiting those assets for semantic interoperability. With the rise of Industry 4.0, ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Identification of the Inspection Specifications for Achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

The contemporary manufacturing landscape is characterized by increased volatility shortened product life cycles and increased degree of product customization. Manufacturing companies are continuously facing the challenge of operating their manufacturing pr ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

A Scheduling Tool for Achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM): A Conceptual Framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Contemporary manufacturing landscape has changed and has become highly volatile and demanding. Product Life Cycle has significantly decreased because of the consumers' need for personalized products in shorter period of time. This need forced the manufactu ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN2018