With the progress of world trade and globalization, and the development of information & communication technology (ICT) and industrial technology, manufacturing pattern and technology are now facing a turning point. In order to realize economic transformation, the Chinese government published China Manufacturing 2025 national strategy; German government published Industry 4.0; and American gove...

Cellular manufacturing is a useful way to improve overall manufacturing performance. Group technology is used to increase the productivity for manufacturing high quality products and improving the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Cell formation is an important step in group technology. It is used in designing good cellular manufacturing systems. The key step in designing any cellular manuf...

Manufacturing systems involve decisions concerning production processes, capacity, planning, and control. In a MTO manufacturing systems, strategic decisions concerning fulfilment of customer requirement, manufacturing cost, and due date of delivery are the most important. In order to accelerate the decision making process, research on decision making structure when receiving order and sequenci...

A new low cost thin film substrate technology was developed within the EU research project LAP. The project’s substrate cost target of 1 US$/inch shall be obtained by using low cost materials and large area panel processing (LAP). This paper presents tests and measurements showing the process accuracy and the geometric variations resulting from low cost manufacturing. The second part is focusin...

Traditional component manufacturing systems have been optimized for either small scale craft production or for mass production of a small variety of high volume parts. Trends towards intermediate volumes and larger variety of parts have exposed the need for intelligently embedding flexibility in manufacturing systems and processes. The literature offers only few attempts to value component fabr...

technology, equipment and applications related to the automated assembly and robotics industries. Feature articles include updates on the latest manufacturing research, tutorials on a particular manufacturing technology and field reports on installed manufacturing technologies, all from a technical perspective. Each issue also includes additional brief articles, product announcements and event ...

technology, equipment and applications related to the automated assembly and robotics industries. Feature articles include updates on the latest manufacturing research, tutorials on a particular manufacturing technology and field reports on installed manufacturing technologies, all from a technical perspective. Each issue also includes additional brief articles, product announcements and event ...

CMOS faces new device and technology challenges: MOSFETs require ultra-sharp doping profiles and complex processing; integration of devices into circuits requires arbitrary interconnection with overlay precision beyond known manufacturing solutions (3σ=±3nm, 16nm CMOS, ITRS’11[1]). To overcome these challenges, we propose a new nanoscale computing fabric with integrated design of device, interc...

The manufacturing of modern semiconductor devices involves a complex set of nanoscale fabrication processes that are energy and resource intensive. There is a need for a comprehensive analysis of environmental impacts when an innovative new manufacturing approach emerges for semiconductor circuits. FinFET devices, a special kind of quasi-planer double gate devices, have been introduced as the n...

In the last few decades, many large corporations have been moving part of the supply chains, especially manufacturing, offshore to take advantage of the low cost resources and labor. For example, the southern part of China, such as Pearl River Delta (PRD), has been attracting the enterprises from all over the word in the last two decades and has become the world manufacturing hub. The types of ...