This manuscript is a submission to the workshop \Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Manufacturing". It introduces and positions our part in a project and motivates our approach with respect to reinforcement learning and manufacturing processes. In an \extended appendix" some additional information will be given about our problem domain and preliminary results. Our main issue is tha...

Global warming, rising energy prices and increasing awareness of “green” customers have brought energy efficient manufacturing on top of the agenda of governments as well as of industrial companies. The industrial sector still accounts for about 33% of the final energy consumption. This paper will contribute to a more energy efficient manufacturing by demonstrating how energy efficiency can be ...

Manufacturing is a global activity that started during the industrial revolution in the late 19th century to cater for the large-scale production of products. Since then, manufacturing has changed tremendously through the innovations of technology, processes, materials, communication and transportation. The major challenge facing manufacturing is to produce more products using less material, le...

Competitive manufacturers have shifted their focus from post-process defect detection to realtime, in-process defect prevention. In 1992, existing coordinate measuring machine (CMM) technology, which was used for quality control purposes, failed to meet the demand for realtime, highly accurate measurement, because the machines had to be located in climatecontrolled rooms. Giddings & Lewis propo...

In the manufacturing of TFT-LCD, the array process is for producing TFT-plates, the CF (color filter) process is for making CF-plates, and the cell process is for assembling a TFT plate with a CF one to form an integrated plate—called TFT-LCD plate. A TFT/CF plate comprises tens of panels and so is an assembled TFT-LCD plate. A TFT-LCD panel is good only when its two component panels are good. ...

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a source of multi-ton quantities of protein pharmaceuticals. They are, however, immortalized cells, characterized by a high degree of genetic and phenotypic diversity. As is known for any biological system, this diversity is enhanced by selective forces when laboratories (no sharing of gene pools) grow cells under (diverse) conditions that are practical and...

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The paper extends the Autonomous Logistics Engineering Methodology (ALEM) by a deeper understanding of immaterial logistic objects to trigger manufacturing processes. Further, a hierarchical modeling concept is introduced to split customer orders logically into partial orders, which run directly at the shop floor level. Each partial order consists of certain manufacturing steps. The amendments ...

At least since Skinner's [40] landmark article depicting the manufacturing function as the "missing link" in corporate strategic processes, a portion of the blame for inferior performance in many firms has been attributed to the subordinate strategic position of manufacturing. Further, it has been argued by many that part of the solution to misalignments between the capabilities possessed by ma...

While the area of process automation in semiconductor manufacturing has many issues in common with process automation and enactment in business processes, the nature of the semiconductor manufacturing process introduces a number of challenging new issues. Among these issues is the need to not only automate the process but also to continuously control and optimize it. Furthermore the semantics o...