Advanced Engineering Informatics

The current shortage of skilled and experienced management personnel in the construction industry makes it necessary to devise solutions that fully leverage the available expertise. Augmented Reality (AR) ...

With the rapid development and implementation of ICT, academics and industrial practitioners are widely applying robotic process automation (RPA) to enhance their business processes and operational efficiencies. This paper intends to ...

Smart manufacturing has great potential in the development of network collaboration, mass personalised customisation, sustainability and flexibility. Customised production can better meet the dynamic user needs, and network ...

• VR application is extended to the investigation of CCT inside the tunnel.
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Correlated color temperature (CCT) of the light source inside the road tunnel plays a crucial role in ensuring driving safety, which is demonstrated by previous studies that CCT influences not only visual effects but also non-visual ...

Digital transformation (DT) is prevalent in businesses today. However, current studies to guide DT are mostly qualitative, resulting in a strong call for quantitative evidence of exactly what DT is and the capabilities needed to enable ...

Teaching and learning through Virtual Reality(VR) is an emerging technology in the last few years. In this article, the development and use of a VR based teaching–learning system for crystal structures are discussed. The VR system is ...

• A systematic methodology is proposed for the greenness assessment of supply chains.

The increase in the consumption level of products with various materials has resulted in many problems. A worrisome result of this situation is environmental problems. Thus, environmental considerations during the planning, designing, ...

With the trend of ‘digitalization’ and ‘servitization’ in the manufacturing industry, numerous product-service systems fail to seize a market share and encounter an imbalance between digital investments and expected revenues. This ...

Lifting operations of mobile cranes are one of the commonly-seen and most important activities for prefabrication housing production (PHP) on sites. However, relevant operations are normally based on the experience of operators or ...

• Point cloud-based algorithms for automatically identifying occluded objects in 3D building information models.

Virtual Reality (VR)-based construction design review applications have shown potential to enhance user performance in many research projects and experiments. Currently, visualizing occluded objects in VR is a challenge, and this ...

• Airport operations management under post-disaster relief scenario is studied.
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Air traffic congestions for processing relief cargos under post-disaster relief scenarios are common, due to high transport demands within a short time. To enhance the resilience of relief operations at airport, an optimization problem ...

This paper aims at advancing the fundamental understanding of the affordances of Augmented Reality (AR) as a workplace-based learning and training technology in supporting manual or semi-automated manufacturing tasks that involve both ...

• Monitoring and assessing awkward postures help to prevent injuries in construction.

Monitoring and assessing awkward postures is a proactive approach for Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) prevention in construction. Machine Learning models have shown promising results when used in recognition of workers’ posture from ...

• Immersive storytelling can attract students to the electrical construction industry.

Although it is projected to have significant employment growth in the electrical construction industry, there are not enough young people to join the workforce. It is indispensable for the future of work in construction to explore ...

For facility management, photography is an efficient and accurate method of recording the physical state of infrastructure. However, without an effective organizational scheme, the difficulty of retrieving relevant photos from ...

While the use of semantic models has been explored in different areas of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry to map and formalize knowledge and support different tasks, building renovation seems to be a ...

Augmented Reality (AR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) provide users with an immersive virtual experience in the real world. The portability of this technology affords various information display options for construction workers that are ...

The emergence of construction robotics and automation has produced an urgent and vast need for construction workers to reskill and upskill for the future of work. Virtual Reality (VR)-based training has been considered and investigated ...

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience where computer-generated perceptual information is superimposed into the real-world environment. Most existing research in AR-based wayfinding has focused on the technological aspects ...

Highway work zones are considered among the most hazardous working environments. In 2018 alone, 124 workers lost their lives to fatal accidents. The lack of predictive safety systems that notify workers of upcoming dangers in advance ...

• Present a literature survey on digital transformation (DT) studies in advanced manufacturing and engineering.

Digital transformation (DT) is the process of combining digital technologies with sound business models to generate great value for enterprises. DT intertwines with customer requirements, domain knowledge, and theoretical and empirical ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) leads to mass personalisation as an emerging manufacturing paradigm. Mass personalisation focuses on uniquely made products to individuals at scale. Global challenges encourage mass ...

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is characterized by digitalization, networking, and smartness, which opens a world of the interconnection of all things and makes mass personalization possible. As a result, traditional ...

• A case study of an experiential learning-informed engineering course.
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Building performance – spanning energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, indoor environmental quality, etc. – is fundamental to the field of building engineering, yet it is typically taught with idealistic assumptions and traditional, ...