Borja Ramis Ferrer

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Borja Ramis Ferrer is a researcher working at the intersection of industrial automation, robotics, and smart manufacturing, with particular expertise in Industry 4.0 technologies, human-robot collaboration, and cyber-physical systems. His most influential work, "Cyber-Physical Systems for Open-Knowledge-Driven Manufacturing Execution Systems" (2016), has garnered 129 citations and established him as a significant voice in bridging enterprise-level functions with real-time production operations through intelligent embedded systems. His research consistently addresses practical challenges on factory shop floors, including the safe integration of collaborative robots (cobots) with human workers, leveraging deep learning and computer vision for adaptive workstations, and employing virtual reality for intuitive robot training and monitoring. Ferrer has also made notable contributions to cloud robotics, exploring how distributed computing can enhance flexibility and smart material handling in industrial environments. His work on ISO 22400-compliant performance indicators and knowledge-driven finite-state machines reflects a rigorous, standards-aware approach to manufacturing intelligence. With publications spanning gesture-based robot programming, food industry robotics, and ontological modeling, Ferrer's body of work — accumulating over 260 citations — offers both theoretical grounding and hands-on technological solutions for the evolving modern factory.

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1. 1
   Cyber–Physical Systems for Open-Knowledge-Driven Manufacturing Execution Systems

   129 citations · 2016
2. 2
   Implementing a Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Workstation

   34 citations · 2019
3. 3
   An Approach for adapting a Cobot Workstation to Human Operator within a Deep Learning Camera

   24 citations · 2019
4. 4
   On-line Training and Monitoring of Robot Tasks through Virtual Reality

   22 citations · 2019
5. 5
   Towards the deployment of cloud robotics at factory shop floors: A prototype for smart material handling

   16 citations · 2018
6. 6
   An approach for implementing key performance indicators of a discrete manufacturing simulator based on the ISO 22400 standard

   10 citations · 2018
7. 7
   An application of Cloud Robotics for enhancing the Flexibility of Robotic Cells at Factory Shop Floors

   8 citations · 2018
8. 8
   Hand Gesture-Based On-Line Programming of Industrial Robot Manipulators

   8 citations · 2019
9. 9
   Robotics as key enabler technology in Food Industry 4.0 and beyond

   5 citations · 2024
10. 10
    Knowledge-driven finite-state machines. Study case in monitoring industrial equipment

    5 citations · 2015

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