The efficiency and agility of its supply chain is vital to the commercial success of any product. Sharing strategic and tactical information effectively within the supply chain is often a key factor in achieving this goal. This paper proposes a framework to identify strategic, tactical decisions and information. The framework is used to conduct a sector based analysis of the Rapid Manufacturing...

In this paper we present a new, accurate form of the heat balance integral method, termed the Combined Integral Method (or CIM). The application of this method to Stefan problems is discussed. For simple test cases the results are compared with exact and asymptotic limits. In particular, it is shown that the CIM is more accurate than the second order, large Stefan number, perturbation solution ...

Myrna Flores*, Claudio Boer*, Charles Huber**, Adrian Plüss**, Roger Schoch** and Michel Pouly*** *University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Department of Technology and Innovation (DTI) The CIM Institute for Sustainable Innovation (ICIMSI) [email protected], [email protected] **University of Applied Sciences of Northwest Switzerland Institute of Business Engineerin...

We consider a flexible manufacturing facility that can be operated in any of m different modes. While running in mode k certain intermediate products are consumed and other intermediate or finished products are created. There may be variability in the manufacturing process, as well as random arrivals of raw materials and orders for finished products. We establish conditions that ensure demands ...

It is now widely recognised that methods are needed for covering the whole lifecycle of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) applications. In this paper, we deal with the requirements engineering phase of this lifecycle. A formal language is introduced for capturing real-time requirements expressed on CIM applications. The resulting specification is structured as a society of ‘agents’, each ...

Most decision-making and problem-solving tasks are too complex to be understood quantitatively. People perform such tasks using knowledge that is imprecise rather than precise. This study presents consistent fuzzy linguistic preference relations rather than fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to select computer integrated manufactory (CIM) systems. The proposed method yields decision matric...

This paper presents an integrated approach that combines ‘Sustainable Building Design’ tools and ‘Sustainable Manufacturing Process’ tools to create a tool for the design of sustainable manufacturing systems.’ Currently no such integrated tools are in use by manufacturers to assess energy performance, identify improvement areas and help suggest actions. This paper describes the development of a...

Poernomo suggested an approach for requirement analysis within the CIM level of the MDA framework. His approach combined MEASUR, goal and object oriented analysis, and developed a new methodology that can be integrated within the CIM level of the MDA. This paper adds requirement traceability capabilities to the method developed by Poernomo and applies the extended method on a case study based o...

The Congruent Interaction Matrix (CIM) model is being formulated to represent knowledge updating and language production. The line of research taken in this paper is limited to a set of questions restricted to concepts and actions that can be used in modeling human language behavior. The Congruent Interaction Matrix model introduced here proposes virtual structures represented as matrices. The ...

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROCESS CONTROL A discussion of Statistical Process Control, Total Productive Maintenance, and Automated Process Control in production processes. The control of production processes is the subject of several disciplines, such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Automated Process Control (APC). Although these disciplines are tra...