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Optimizing Fairness in Production Planning: A Human-Centric Approach to Machine and Workforce Allocation
Alexander Nasuta, Alessandro Cisi, Sylwia Olbrych, Gustavo Vieira, Rui Fernandes, Lucas Paletta, Marlene Mayr, Rishyank Chevuri, Robert Woitsch, Hans Aoyang Zhou, Anas Abdelrazeq, Robert H. Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01094

Optimizing Fairness in Production Planning: A Human-Centric Approach to Machine and Workforce Allocation
This work presents a two-layer, human-centric production planning framework designed to optimize both operational efficiency and workforce fairness in industrial manufacturing. The first layer formulates the Order-Line allocation as a Constraint Programming (CP) problem, generating high-utilization production schedules that respect machine capacities, processing times, and due dates. The second layer models Worker-Line allocation as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), integrating human factors suc…

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[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

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Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

CoFacS -- Simulating a Complete Factory to Study the Security of Interconnected Production
Stefan Lenz, David Schachtschneider, Simon Jonas, Liam Tirpitz, Sandra Geisler, Martin Henze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14526

CoFacS -- Simulating a Complete Factory to Study the Security of Interconnected Production
While the digitization of industrial factories provides tremendous improvements for the production of goods, it also renders such systems vulnerable to serious cyber-attacks. To research, test, and validate security measures protecting industrial networks against such cyber-attacks, the security community relies on testbeds to simulate industrial systems, as utilizing live systems endangers costly components or even human life. However, existing testbeds focus on individual parts of typically c…

PB-IAD: Utilizing multimodal foundation models for semantic industrial anomaly detection in dynamic manufacturing environments
Bernd Hofmann, Albert Scheck, Joerg Franke, Patrick Bruendl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14504

PB-IAD: Utilizing multimodal foundation models for semantic industrial anomaly detection in dynamic manufacturing environments
The detection of anomalies in manufacturing processes is crucial to ensure product quality and identify process deviations. Statistical and data-driven approaches remain the standard in industrial anomaly detection, yet their adaptability and usability are constrained by the dependence on extensive annotated datasets and limited flexibility under dynamic production conditions. Recent advances in the perception capabilities of foundation models provide promising opportunities for their adaptatio…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
SERVALAN: [To Travis] Project Avalon has failed totally. There will be a full inquiry. Until that time you are relieved of your command.
TRAVIS: [To himself] If it takes all my life, I will destroy you, Blake. I will destroy you. I will destroy you.

Mitigating Undesired Conditions in Flexible Production with Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graphs
Petr Novak, Stefan Biffl, Marek Obitko, Petr Kadera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06278

Mitigating Undesired Conditions in Flexible Production with Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graphs
Contemporary industrial cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) composed of robotic workcells face significant challenges in the analysis of undesired conditions due to the flexibility of Industry 4.0 that disrupts traditional quality assurance mechanisms. This paper presents a novel industry-oriented semantic model called Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graph (PPR-AKG), which is designed to analyze and mitigate undesired conditions in flexible CPPS. Built on top of the well-proven Pr…

Tuning LLM-based Code Optimization via Meta-Prompting: An Industrial Perspective
Jingzhi Gong, Rafail Giavrimis, Paul Brookes, Vardan Voskanyan, Fan Wu, Mari Ashiga, Matthew Truscott, Mike Basios, Leslie Kanthan, Jie Xu, Zheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01443

Tuning LLM-based Code Optimization via Meta-Prompting: An Industrial Perspective
There is a growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) for automated code optimization. However, industrial platforms deploying multiple LLMs face a critical challenge: prompts optimized for one LLM often fail with others, requiring expensive model-specific prompt engineering. This cross-model prompt engineering bottleneck severely limits the practical deployment of multi-LLM optimization systems in production environments. To address this, we introduce Meta-Prompted Code Optimi…

A Lightweight Group Multiscale Bidirectional Interactive Network for Real-Time Steel Surface Defect Detection
Yong Zhang, Cunjian Chen, Qiang Gao, Yi Wang, Bin Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16397

A Lightweight Group Multiscale Bidirectional Interactive Network for Real-Time Steel Surface Defect Detection
Real-time surface defect detection is critical for maintaining product quality and production efficiency in the steel manufacturing industry. Despite promising accuracy, existing deep learning methods often suffer from high computational complexity and slow inference speeds, which limit their deployment in resource-constrained industrial environments. Recent lightweight approaches adopt multibranch architectures based on depthwise separable convolution (DSConv) to capture multiscale contextual …

Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions
Neave O'Clery, Ben Radcliffe-Brown, Thomas Spencer, Daniel Tarling-Hunter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12315

Deciphering the global production network from cross-border firm transactions
Critical for policy-making and business operations, the study of global supply chains has been severely hampered by a lack of detailed data. Here we harness global firm-level transaction data covering 20m global firms, and 1 billion cross-border transactions, to infer key inputs for over 1200 products. Transforming this data to a directed network, we find that products are clustered into three large groups including textiles, chemicals and food, and machinery and metals. European industrial nat…

AutoMPC: A Code Generator for MPC-based Automated Driving
Georg Schildbach, Jasper Pflughaupt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13656 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

AutoMPC: A Code Generator for MPC-based Automated Driving
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful technique to control nonlinear, multi-input multi-output systems subject to input and state constraints. It is now a standard tool for trajectory tracking control of automated vehicles. As such it has been used in many research and development projects. However, MPC faces several challenges to be integrated into industrial production vehicles. The most important ones are its high computational demands and the complexity of implementation. The softwar…

Alpha Berkeley: A Scalable Framework for the Orchestration of Agentic Systems
Thorsten Hellert, Jo\~ao Montenegro, Antonin Sulc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15066 https://

Alpha Berkeley: A Scalable Framework for the Orchestration of Agentic Systems
Coordinating workflows across heterogeneous control systems remains a central challenge in safety-critical environments such as scientific facilities, industrial plants, and energy infrastructures. Language-model-driven agents offer a natural interface for these tasks, but existing approaches often lack scalability, reliability, and human oversight. We introduce the Alpha Berkeley Framework, a production-ready architecture for scalable agentic systems that integrate conversational context with …

Optimizing Fairness in Production Planning: A Human-Centric Approach to Machine and Workforce Allocation
Alexander Nasuta, Alessandro Cisi, Sylwia Olbrych, Gustavo Vieira, Rui Fernandes, Lucas Paletta, Marlene Mayr, Rishyank Chevuri, Robert Woitsch, Hans Aoyang Zhou, Anas Abdelrazeq, Robert H. Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01094

Optimizing Fairness in Production Planning: A Human-Centric Approach to Machine and Workforce Allocation
This work presents a two-layer, human-centric production planning framework designed to optimize both operational efficiency and workforce fairness in industrial manufacturing. The first layer formulates the Order-Line allocation as a Constraint Programming (CP) problem, generating high-utilization production schedules that respect machine capacities, processing times, and due dates. The second layer models Worker-Line allocation as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), integrating human factors suc…

High-Fidelity Simulations of Two Miscible Fluids in Small Scale Turbulent Mixers Using a Variational Multiscale Finite Element Method
Dongjie Jia, Mohammad Majidi, Kurt D. Ristroph, Arezoo Ardekani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12029

High-Fidelity Simulations of Two Miscible Fluids in Small Scale Turbulent Mixers Using a Variational Multiscale Finite Element Method
Turbulent mixers have been widely used in industrial settings for chemical production and increasingly for therapeutic nanoparticle formulation by antisolvent precipitation. The quality of the product is closely related to the fluid and mixing dynamics inside the mixers. Due to the rapid time scales and small sizes of many turbulent mixing geometries, computational fluid dynamics simulations have been the primary tool used to predict and understand fluid behavior within these mixers. In this st…

Towards Efficient Pixel Labeling for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Localization
Jingqi Wu, Hanxi Li, Lin Yuanbo Wu, Hao Chen, Deyin Liu, Peng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05034

Towards Efficient Pixel Labeling for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Localization
Industrial product inspection is often performed using Anomaly Detection (AD) frameworks trained solely on non-defective samples. Although defective samples can be collected during production, leveraging them usually requires pixel-level annotations, limiting scalability. To address this, we propose ADClick, an Interactive Image Segmentation (IIS) algorithm for industrial anomaly detection. ADClick generates pixel-wise anomaly annotations from only a few user clicks and a brief textual descript…

Carbon cloth electrode generates hydrogen in seawater for over 800 hours, offering a sustainable solution for cleaner energy production. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Carbon cloth electrode produces hydrogen for 800 hours in seawater
Researchers develop carbon cloth electrode for seawater electrolysis, running 800+ hours under industrial-level high current.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SHAD: [On screen] Yes, madam.
[Launch platform]
GUARD: Instructions from the Captain. You are to wait for the next shuttle.
CARLON: But there isn't another.
GUARD: One will be sent for you tomorrow.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/214

A Digital Pheromone-Based Approach for In/Out-of-Control Classification
Pedro Pestana, M. F\'atima Brilhante
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07329 https://a…

A Digital Pheromone-Based Approach for In/Out-of-Control Classification
In complex production lines, it is essential to have strict, fast-acting rules to determine whether the system is In Control (InC) or Out of Control (OutC). This study explores a bio-inspired method that digitally mimics ant colony behavior to classify InC/OutC states and forecast imminent transitions requiring maintenance. A case study on industrial potato chip frying provides the application context. During each two-minute frying cycle, sequences of eight temperature readings are collected. E…

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…

Reinforcement learning meets bioprocess control through behaviour cloning: Real-world deployment in an industrial photobioreactor
Juan D. Gil, Ehecatl Antonio Del Rio Chanona, Jos\'e L. Guzm\'an, Manuel Berenguel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06853

Reinforcement learning meets bioprocess control through behaviour cloning: Real-world deployment in an industrial photobioreactor
The inherent complexity of living cells as production units creates major challenges for maintaining stable and optimal bioprocess conditions, especially in open Photobioreactors (PBRs) exposed to fluctuating environments. To address this, we propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) control approach, combined with Behavior Cloning (BC), for pH regulation in open PBR systems. This represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first application of an RL-based control strategy to such a nonlinear and…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: What for? They could take us out quite easily with their technology.
TARRANT: Damn their technology. Is that all you care about? What about Cally? How did she come to be here? Why are they holding her?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/249 B7B3…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: You WILL leave it.
GLYND: Why not, it's already served its purpose in uniting us for the common cause. [Blake hands the box to Avon]
BLAKE: Acclaim it for that.
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Breakup cascade in gas filament
Ali\'enor Rivi\`ere (PMMH), Zehua Liu (MAE), Jishen Zhang (PMMH), Laurent Duchemin (PMMH), Luc Deike (HMEI), St\'ephane Perrard (PMMH)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00872

Breakup cascade in gas filament
Despite its importance in both geophysical and industrial contexts, the inertial fragmentation of gas filaments has received much less attention than their liquid counterparts. Yet, gas filaments produce the smallest bubble sizes, which drive gas dissolution, critical to ocean-atmosphere exchange such as carbon dioxide and oxygen, as well as marine aerosols emission, serving as nuclei for cloud condensation and ice particle production. Here, we unravel the fundamental physics governing the spli…

A CFD model for heat and mass transfer leading to plume formation within Wet Cooling Towers
Luc Favre (CEREA, ENPC), Martin Ferrand (CEREA, ENPC, EDF R,D MFEE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08394

A CFD model for heat and mass transfer leading to plume formation within Wet Cooling Towers
The crucial role played by Wet Cooling Towers (WCT) in many electricity production plants (e.g. nuclear power plants) make them a key parameter in the industrial design of such facilities. Their impact over the cooling water consumption and surrounding atmosphere through the formation and dispersion of a humid air plume has pushed the need to obtain proper models and simulations in order to anticipate those effects. In this work, we tackle this issue through a dedicated modelling in the CFD sol…

Contest vs. Competition in Cournot Duopoly: Schaffer's Paradox
Rabah Amir, Igor V. Evstigneev, Mikhail V. Zhitlukhin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00960 https://

Contest vs. Competition in Cournot Duopoly: Schaffer's Paradox
The paper compares two types of industrial organization in the Cournot duopoly: (a) the classical one, where the market players maximize profits and the outcome of the game is a Cournot-Nash equilibrium; (b) a contest in which players strive to win a fixed prize/bonus employing unbeatable strategies. Passing from (a) to (b) leads to a perfect competition with zero profits of the players (Schaffer's paradox). Transition from (b) to (a) results in a substantial decline in the production output, w…