This paper presents firstly in the world the framework of Grid manufacturing, which neatly combines Grid technology with the infrastructure of advanced manufacturing technology. It studies the Grid-oriented knowledge description and acquisition, and constructs the distributed Knowledge Grid model. It also deals with the protocol of node description in collaborative design, and builds up the dis...

Firms have invested over $15 billion in the past three years on new information technology and software in their manufacturing plants. In this study, we document how the implementation of new types of manufacturing practices has impacted the types of information technology investments in manufacturing plants. We present a conceptual model to develop hypotheses about relationships between manufa...

Firms have invested over $15 billion in the past three years on new information technology and software in their manufacturing plants. In this study, we document how the implementation of new types of manufacturing practices has impacted the types of information technology investments in manufacturing plants. We present a conceptual model to develop hypotheses about relationships between manufa...

Low carbon has become a highly relevant topic in today’s society, particularly for manufacturing enterprises. To gain insight into how enterprises embedded the industrial internet platform make decisions regarding low-carbon technology innovation, this article examines service quality of platform, preferences enterprises, and government subsidy factors. A ecological system game model, comprised...

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...

Technology assessment is a vital part of decision process in manufacturing, particularly for decisions on selection of new sustainable manufacturing processes. To assess these processes, a matrix approach is introduced and sustainability assessment models are developed. Case studies show that the matrix-based approach provides a flexible and practical way for sustainability evaluation of new ma...

Optical interconnect is seen as a potential solution to meet the performance requirements of current and future generation of data processors. Optical interconnects have negligible frequency dependent loss, low cross talk and high band width. Optical interconnects are not much used commercially since optical interconnects technology is incompatible with manufacturing processes and assembly meth...

In this paper, aiming at the problems of backward overall technology, weak competitiveness, poor operation efficiency and low production and economic efficiency in Liaoning equipment manufacturing industry, we based on the theory of constrains and used the DEA model to research its technology upgrading input and output efficiency to find its bottleneck, and then analysis its cause, finally put ...

Joanne Beck, PhD, director of biologics manufacturing, Abbott Research Center Uwe Gottschalk, PhD, vice president, purification technology, Sartorius AG, Germany David W. Kahn, PhD, director, late-stage purification development, Human Genome Sciences, Inc. Duncan Low, PhD, scientific director, process development, Amgen Inc. Jill A Meyers, PhD, principal consultant, BioPro Consulting Charles Sc...