Industries across the world are realizing the benefits of Industry 4.0 and the University of South Carolina has been using Digital Transformation to transform processes in multiple industries. The University of South Carolina has established a roadmap for implementing Digital Transformation and will introduce multiple use cases that can be used in real-world applications from an idea, to a design, to a manufacturing process, to operations and to maintenance and repairs.

Ayman Fayed, Professor Director, Power Management Research Lab (https://pmrl.osu.edu/), Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Fractional calculus has been proved through numerous research examples to be a superior tool for system description than the narrow integer order domain. This is achieved through the extra parameters introduced via allowing the differential or integral orders to take non-integer values. The promising capabilities of fractional-order devices challenge the research to find a way to simulate its behavior until its off-shelf appearance. Different integer order approximation techniques to the fractional-order transfer functions are investigated in the literature. The main idea behind approximating the fractance device is to achieve a nearly constant phase response of the impedance. There are many categories of fractional order system approximations in analog and digital domains.