S PC is SPC is discussed with a view to indicating its implications not only to manufacturing and quality but to research and product development as well. In the manufacturing/quality area, the efforts and methods attending full-scale implementation of SPC are briefly reviewed with special reference to the differences inherent in powder making versus manufacturing of parts. SPC charting techniq...

Purpose – For more than ten years, the value of additive manufacturing (AM) for after-sales service logistics has been propagated. Today, however, only few applications are observed in practice. In this paper, possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed and a method is developed to simplify the identification of economically valuable and technologically feasible business cases. Design/m...

In many manufacturing processes, some key process parameters have very strong relationship with the normal or various faulty products of finished products. The abnormal changes of these process parameters could result in various categories of faulty products. In this paper, a data mining model is developed for on-line intelligent monitoring and diagnosis of the manufacturing processes. In the p...

Rapid Prototyping is a versatile method to build complex-shaped ceramic or metallic parts on a mesoscopic scale. In this work the fabrication of ceramic gas turbine engine parts with Mold Shape Deposition Manufacturing (Mold SDM) is described. Mold SDM exists of two steps: The pattern generation in wax using deposition and machining of wax layers and the pattern transfer process with gel-castin...

Sustainable manufacturing is gaining more and more interest from companies and researchers. In this talk, we will show how such a systems view is needed to identify the correct focal areas. We will use examples from automotive engineering where we quantified environmental loadings to demonstrate where new research and development should take place to achieve higher reductions in environmental i...

This paper develops and tests a privacy-preserving business process that supports the selection of a contract manufacturer by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), and the determination of whether the OEM or the chosen contract manufacturer will procure each of the components to be used in the manufacture of the OEM’s branded product. Our ‘‘secure price-masking (SPM)’’ technology contribute...

When powder injection molding first appeared on the market, it was very well received for the potential it offered. However, the market did not grow as expected at that time. In recent years, the perseverance of manufacturers in this field has borne fruit, and today, the market is about 10 billion yen. However, looking at the market, one is still painfully aware of how low its recognition remai...

The paper discusses the feature-based process planning in a digital manufacturing concept, for prismatic parts manufacturing. STEP standard as an enabler of feature-based manufacturing is presented in detail, along with belonging application protocols. The case study on the feature-based CAPP/CAM model in Serbian SME is shown to depict the advantages, followed by the research recommendations fo...

An extrusion-based additive manufacturing process, called the Ceramic On-Demand Extrusion (CODE) process, for producing three-dimensional ceramic components with near theoretical density is introduced in this paper. In this process, an aqueous paste of ceramic particles with a very low binder content (<1 vol%) is extruded through a moving nozzle at room temperature. After a layer is deposited, ...