10–1 Adhesive bonding of wood plays an increasing role in the forest products industry and is a key factor for efficiently utilizing our timber resource. The main use of adhesives is in the manufacture of building materials, including plywood, oriented strandboard, particleboard, fiberboard, structural composite lumber, doors, windows and frames, and factory-laminated wood products. Adhesives a...

This paper proposes a mathematical approach to the aiialysis of disassemblability of a product for generating stable robotic assembly sequences. The disassemblability of a part, which represents a cost for disassembling the part from a base assembly, is derived in terms of both separability of a part from a base assembly and motion instability of the base assembly. Then, stable robotic assembly...

AMACOIA (for Approche Multi-Agents pour la COnception d’Installations d’Assemblage) is a tool for designing flexible assembly lines. Its objective is to determine the functional specifications of the constituting equipments (manipulators, fixtures, grippers, conveyors, ...) and the organisational structure (cells, workstations) for the least expensive assembly line able to assemble a product (o...

This paper aims to demonstrate the application of multi-objective evolutionary optimization, namely an adaptation of NSGA-II, to simultaneously optimize the assembly sequence plan as well as selection of the type and number of assembly stations for a production shop that produces three different models of wind propelled ventilators. The decision variables, which are the assembly sequences of ea...

Taiwan’s electronics industry usually outsources most of its important components for production to enhance market competitiveness and operational flexibility. The quality all component products is ensure the final product. In electronic assembly, printed circuit boards (PCBs) are key that carry other provide a stable working environment. Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) mainstream technology i...

Currently, Virtual Environments (VEs) are used within engineering industry: physical prototypes or mock-ups are replaced by virtual prototypes. Increasingly, these VEs also allow designers and engineers to carry out assembly/disassembly processes and assembly sequences before any physical prototype is built. Moreover, different designers or engineers, which may be situated in the same or in geo...

The majority of patients with MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyophathy, lactic acidosis, stroke-like episodes) carry a heteroplasmic A3243G mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu(UUR)). The mutation prevents modification of the wobble U base, impairing translation at UUA and UUG codons; however, whether this results in amino acid misincorporation in the mitochondrial translation products remains...

Abstract. The article is a case study on the use of selected quality management tools in company from automotive industry for purpose improving basic production process carried - assembly process. Quality such as Pareto-Lorenz diagram, Ishikawa and 5WHY method were used. analyses out with made it possible to identify non-conformities that most often occurred during tested products, indicate cau...

This paper presents a nonlinear mixed-integer programming model to minimize the stoppage cost of mixed-model assembly lines. Nowadays, most manufacturing firms employ this type of line due to the increasing varieties of products in their attempts to quickly respond to diversified customer demands. Advancement of new technologies, competitiveness, diversification of products, and large customer ...

Caenorhabditis elegans spermatozoa move by crawling. Their motility requires thin cytoskeletal filaments assembled from a unique cytoskeletal protein, the major sperm protein (MSP). During normal sperm development the MSP is segregated to developing sperm by assembly into filaments that form a paracrystalline array in a transient organelle, the fibrous body-membranous organelle. Mutations in th...