New paper titled “Parameter Identification for Bernoulli Serial Production Line Model” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Congratulations!

New paper titled “Parameter Identification for Bernoulli Serial Production Line Model” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Congratulations!

New paper titled “A New Aggregation Algorithm for Performance Metric Calculation in Serial Production Lines with Exponential Machines: Design, Accuracy and Robustness” is accepted for publication in International Journal of Production Research. Congratulations!

New paper titled “Real-Time Bottleneck in Serial Production Lines with Bernoulli Machines: Theory and Case Study” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Congratulations!

Two papers titled “Estimation of Machine Parameters in Exponential Serial Lines using Feedforward Neural Networks” and “Parameter Identification for Multiple-Machine Bernoulli Lines using Statistical Learning Methods” are accepted by the 16th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering held online.

New paper titled “Smart Production System Modeling: Bernoulli Serial Line Case” is accepted by the ISFA 2020 Virtual Conference.

Our research on AR application of the manufacturing won the first place award in 6th annual graduate poster competition with Electrical & Computer Engineering department.



Professor Zhang’s paper on Smart Production Systems was awarded the Commended Paper Award of the 9th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IISE/INFORMS Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (MIM 2019), Berlin Germany.

Welcome two new Phd students: Tianyu Zhu and Yuting Sun join SPS Lab.
Professor Zhang and Yishu Bai attended 15th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering held at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada from August 22th to 26th. They both made presentations for papers on the conference. What’s more, Yishu gave a presentation in competition for the Best Student Paper Award.


Two papers titled “An Accurate and Robust Algorithm for Performance Evaluation of Exponential Serial Lines with Finite Buffers” and “Dynamic Bottleneck in Serial Production Lines with Bernoulli Machines” are accepted by the 15th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering held at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Especially, The former one has been selected as a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award.
