Cloud Manufacturing is emerging as a new manufacturing paradigm which is believed to change the way industries and enterprises do their businesses, in that dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. It can transform the traditional manufacturing business model, help it align product innovation with business strategy, and create intelligent factor...

The AAAI Special Interest Group on AI in Manufacturing ~SIGMAN! organization represents a wide array of researchers addressing fundamental scientific problems that arise in engineering design and manufacturing. The human endeavor that is design and manufacturing is rich in basic problems for researchers in Artificial Intelligence. From process planning researchers who aim to augment the abiliti...

Our purpose in this study is to describe the circumstances and views of 16 individuals 8 years after their participation in one agency's conversion from a sheltered workshop to an exclusively community employment service. Individual interviews were conducted to examine participants' present employment circumstances and their perspectives on the agency changes and on their current life situation...

In the last few decades, lean techniques have been developed for removing with waste in manufacturing. More recently, lean is used outside the manufacturing context as well. This article focuses on using lean thinking for reducing waste in administrative services, i.e., business services with information as input and output. This article delivers three innovations in this field: 1) a lean appro...