Special Issue on the Latest Machine Tool Technologies and Manufacturing Processes

摘要

With the 2011 launch of Industrie 4.0, a German project aiming to pro-mote the computerization of manufacturing, the integration of physical or actual manufacturing systems with cyber-physical systems (CPS) using var-ious technologies, such as the Internet of things (ⅠoT), industrial Internet of things (ⅡOT), and artificial intelligence, is considered to be more important than ever before. One of the goals of the Industrie 4.0 is to realize smart fac-tories or smart manufacturing using advanced digital technologies. However, the core component in the manufacturing systems is still machine tools.