Quality costs are the costs associated with preventing, finding, and correcting defective work. Since the main language of corporate management is money, quality-related costs act as means of communication between the staff of quality engineering departments and the company managers. The objective of quality engineering is to minimize the total quality cost across the life of product. Quality c...

Simulation technology is underutilized by the manufacturing industry. Standard data interfaces, among simulation modules or between simulation and other software applications, could make information sharing effective and efficient, and hence promote utilization of simulators. An information model that represents machine shop data and facilitates data sharing among the manufacturing execution sy...

OBJECTIVES A system for retrospective occupational exposure assessment combining the efficiency of a job exposure matrix (JEM) and the precision of a subsequent individual expert exposure assessment (IEEA) was developed. All steps of the exposure assessment were performed by an interdisciplinary expert panel in the context of a case-control study on male germ cell cancer nested in the car manuf...

paint cure oven is one of the most important parts of automobile production line. the cure speed and the magnitude of energy consumption are significant in auto manufacturing industry. the radiation oven has been of the interest by cure industry due to the reduction in energy consumption and appropriate cure. the design process of these ovens is really complex specially for bodies with complex ...

Increase in the use of computers and hi-tech gadgetry have boosted the semiconductor manufacturing industry tremendously over the past decade. At the same time, exponential rates of growth and innovation combined with cutthroat competition are putting tremendous pressure on the industry to improve manufacturing practices and reduce costs. With considerable existing work in the modeling, simulat...

Many manufacturing industries, especially small to medium-sized companies, are in the process of exploring the move from two-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) technologies to three-dimensional CAD tools interfaced with product data management (PDM) systems. For many companies, their current organizational structure is not well suited to fully leverage the capabilities of new CAD/PDM techn...

B.V. Chowdary Manufacturing today is the most critical and dynamic sector, with the capacity to provide more jobs, stabilise communities and drive nation’s growth. There remains an urgent need in Trinidad and Tobago (TT) to research and assess opportunities to strengthen the manufacturing sector that is expected to provide a stable economy in the absence of the energy sector. Manufacturing tech...

Manufacturing is a major driving force and an important pillar for national economic development .It is an important source to create national income. Currently the low level of logistics industry development significantly restricted prosperity and development of manufacturing, and affected the overall competitiveness of the supply chain. The paper firstly explains the relevant research about i...

The wave of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is breaking on manufacturing companies. In manufacturing, one of the buzzwords of the moment is "Smart production". Smart production involves manufacturing equipment with many sensors that can generate and transmit large amounts of data. Data and information from manufacturing operations are however not used by most manufacturing compa...

The wave of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is bringing a new vision of the manufacturing industry. In manufacturing, one of the buzzwords of the moment is "Smart production". Smart production involves manufacturing equipment with many sensors that can generate and transmit large amounts of data. Data and information from manufacturing operations are however not used by most man...