− De-manufacturing is an entire process of collecting, disassembling, reusing, refurbishing, recycling, and/or disposing products that are obsolete or un-repairable. Designing the products for inexpensive and efficient disassembly enhances the ease of de-manufacturing. Virtual disassembly addresses the difficulty and the methods to disassemble a product in design stage rather than really disass...

Virtual reality is a technology which is often regarded as a natural extension to 3D computer graphics with advanced input and output devices. This technology has only recently matured enough to warrant serious engineering applications. The integration of this new technology with software systems for engineering, design, and manufacturing will provide a new boost to the field of computer-aided ...

Generally, human resources play an important role in manufacturing systems as they can affect the work environment. One of the most important factors affecting the human resources is being an interactional interest among the workers in the workshops. If the workers in a manufacturing cell have the highest surface of the interactional interest level, it causes a significant raise in coordination...

The use of virtual reality (VR) in interactive design and manufacture has been researched extensively but its practical application in industry is still very much in its infancy. Indeed one would have expected that, after some 30 years of research, commercial applications of interactive design or manufacturing planning and analysis would be widespread throughout the product design domain. Simil...

As the global competition in the semiconductor industry grows, customer service in addition to manufacturing capability becomes an important way to success. As such, virtual fab (VF) has been proposed by companies in this industry. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the world’s largest dedicated IC foundry, constructed its VF to strengthen bond with customers. Customers c...

The Real-Time (RT) class on the Solaris operating system was evaluated to study the feasibility and effects of change in priority and time quantum within an RT class for competing processes. Several experiments were conducted and the results will be compared and discussed in the paper. The application of real-time process control will be discussed in context of a virtual manufacturing environme...

Production process planning in real or virtual environment refers to the choice of parameters and sequencing of certain manufacturing processes with the aim to obtain the required product features with greater productivity, reduced production costs, shorter development time etc. Therefore, innovative systems for virtual process planning, based on intelligent agents, greatly improve adaptation t...

Cells are composed of macromolecular structures of various sizes that act individually or collectively to maintain their viability and perform their function within the organism. This review focuses on one structure, the microtubule, and one of the motor proteins that move along it, conventional kinesin (kinesin 1). Recent work on the cellular functions of kinesins, such as the organization of ...

In this research, computer simulation is used for Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) plant layout analysis. The current layout of this manufacturing plant is a process layout, which is not suitable due to the nature of an EMS that has high-volume and high-variety environment. Moreover, quick response and high flexibility are also needed. Then, cellular manufacturing layout design was determ...