2017

Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Ahmad, Bilal and Harrison, Robert (2017) A method to assess assembly complexity of industrial products in early design phase. IEEE Access . (In Press)

2016

Harrison, Robert, Vera, Daniel A. and Ahmad, Bilal (2016) Engineering the smart factory. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 29 (6). pp. 1046-1051. doi:10.3901/CJME.2016.0908.109

Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Ahmad, Mussawar, Ahmad, Bilal and Harrison, Robert (2016) A lightweight approach for human factor assessment in virtual assembly designs : an evaluation model for postural risk and metabolic workload. In: 6th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP, 44 pp. 26-31. ISSN 2212-8271.

Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Ahmad, Mussawar, Ahmad, Bilal and Harrison, Robert (2016) A model for complexity assessment in manual assembly operations through predetermined motion time systems. In: 6th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP, 44 pp. 429-434. ISSN 2212-8271.

Zhang, Jiayi, Ahmad, Bilal, Vera, Daniel A. and Harrison, Robert (2016) Ontology based semantic-predictive model for reconfigurable automation systems. In: IEEE 14th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Poitiers, France, 18-21 Jul 2016 (In Press)

Carlsson, Oscar , Vera, Daniel A., Delsing, Jerker and Ahmad, Bilal (2016) Plant descriptions for engineering tool interoperability. In: IEEE 14th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Poitiers, France, 18-21 Jul 2016

Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Ahmad, Mussawar, Ahmad, Bilal and Harrison, Robert (2016) Design evaluation of automated manufacturing processes based on complexity of control logic. In: 26th CIRP Design Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 Jun 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP ISSN 2212-8271. (In Press)

Ahmad, Mussawar, Ahmad, Bilal, Harrison, Robert, Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Meredith, James O. and Bindel, Axel (2016) A framework for automatically realizing assembly sequence changes in a virtual manufacturing environment. In: 26th CIRP Design, Stockholm, 15-17 Jun 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP ISSN 2212-8271.

Ahmad, Bilal, Vera, Daniel A. and Harrison, Robert (2016) Engineering methods and tools for cyber–physical automation systems. Proceedings of the IEEE , PP (99). pp. 1-13. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2015.2510665

Ahmad, Mussawar, Alkan, Bugra, Ahmad, Bilal, Vera, Daniel A., Harrison, Robert, Meredith, James O. and Bindel, Axel (2016) The use of a complexity model to facilitate in the selection of a fuel cell assembly sequence. In: 6th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS), Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP pp. 1-6. ISSN 2212-8271. (In Press)

Ahmad, Mussawar, Ahmad, Bilal, Alkan, Bugra, Vera, Daniel A., Harrison, Robert, Meredith, James O. and Bindel, Axel (2016) Hydrogen fuel cell pick and place assembly systems : Heuristic evaluation of reconfigurability and suitability. In: 49th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems (CIRP-CMS 2016), Stuttgart, Germany, 25-27 May 2016. Published in: Procedia CIRP pp. 1-6. ISSN 2212-8271. (In Press)

Ferrer, Borja Ramis, Ahmad, Bilal, Vera, Daniel A., Lobov, Andrei, Harrison, Robert and Lastra, Jose Luis Martinez (2016) Product, process and resource model coupling for knowledge-driven assembly automation. Automatisierungstechnik, 64 (3). pp. 231-243. doi:10.1515/auto-2015-0073

2015

Moraes, Eduardo, Lepikson, Herman, Konstantinov, Sergey, Wermann, Jeffrey, Colombo, Armando W., Ahmad, Bilal and Harrison, Robert (2015) Improving connectivity for runtime simulation of automation systems via OPC UA. In: 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 22-24 Jul 2015. Published in: 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) pp. 288-293. doi:10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281749

Ferrer, Borja Ramis, Ahmad, Bilal, Lobov, Andrei, Vera, Daniel A., Lastra, Jose Luis Martinez and Harrison, Robert (2015) An approach for knowledge-driven product, process and resource mappings for assembly automation. In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Gothenburg, Sweden, 24-28 Aug 2015. Published in: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) pp. 1104-1109. doi:10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294245

Ahmad, Mus'ab, Ahmad, Bilal, Vera, Daniel A. and Harrison, Robert (2015) An innovative energy predictive process planning tool for assembly automation systems. In: 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2015, Yokohama, Japan, 9-12 Nov 2015 005184-005190. doi:10.1109/IECON.2015.7392914

Ferrer, Borja Ramis, Ahmad, Bilal, Lobov, Andrei, Vera, Daniel A., Lastra, Jose L. Martinez and Harrison, Robert (2015) A knowledge-based solution for automatic mapping in component based automation systems. In: 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 22-24 Jul 2015. Published in: 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) pp. 262-268. doi:10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281745

2013

Ahmad, Bilal, Kong, Xiangyu, Harrison, Robert, Watermann, J. and Colombo, A. W. (2013) Automatic generation of human machine interface screens from component-based reconfigurable virtual manufacturing cell. In: IECON 2013 (IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference), Vienna, Austria, 10-13 Nov 2013 pp. 1-6. doi:10.1109/IECON.2013.6700369

Kaur, Navjot, McLeod, C. Stuart, Jain, Atul, Harrison, Robert, Ahmad, Bilal, Colombo, Armando Walter and Delsing, Jerker (2013) Design and simulation of a SOA-based system of systems for automation in the residential sector. In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Kapstaden, South Africa, 25-27 Feb 2013. Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology : ICIT 2013 pp. 1976-1981. ISBN 9781467345699. doi:10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505981

2012

Kong, Xiangyu, Ahmad, Bilal, Harrison, Robert, Park, Y. and Lee, Leslie. J. (2012) Direct deployment of component-based automation systems. In: 17th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2012 IEEE , Krakow, Poland, 17-21 Sep 2012. Published in: Proceedings of 2012 IEEE 17th International Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation pp. 405-408. ISBN 9781467347358. doi:10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489760

2011

Haq, Izhar Ul, Masood, Tariq, Ahmad, Bilal, Harrison, Robert, Raza, Bagar and Monfared, Radmehr P. (2011) Product to process lifecycle management in assembly automation systems. In: 7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, Athens, Greece, 28-30 Sep 2011. Published in: Proceedings of DET2011 pp. 1-11.

Kong, Xiangyu, Ahmad, Bilal, Harrison, Robert, Jain, Atul, Park, Y. and Lee, Leslie J. (2011) Realising the open virtual commissioning of modular automation systems. In: 7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, Athens, Greece, 28-30 Sep 2011. Published in: Proceedings of DET2011 pp. 1-9.