Fault diagnosis and failure prognosis are essential techniques in improving the safety of many manufacturing systems. Therefore, on-line fault detection and isolation is one of the most important tasks in safety-critical and intelligent control systems. Computational intelligence techniques are being investigated as extension of the traditional fault diagnosis methods. This paper discusses the ...

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master’s Degree Programme in Automation Technology TEELAHTI, TOIMI: Implementing Additive manufacturing in microfactories Master of Science Thesis, 64 pages May 2014 Major: Factory Automation Examiner: Professor Reijo Tuokko

S emiconductor manufacturing is an established yet rapidly growing industry, and it has highly automated factories. The automation of a semiconductor factory is a significant and challenging task because of its complicated production processes, sophisticated equipment, and harsh productivity requirements. Advanced robots, automated guided vehicles, high-precision equipment, and various informat...

Humanoid robots have typically been thought of as service robots that work in a close relationship with one or more humans; however, we believe that humanoid robots can also play an important role in manufacturing, especially holonic manufacturing. In this paper, we discuss several key problems that must be solved before humanoid robots can assume useful roles in society, both at home and in th...

This paper is concerned with the development of information and communication technology (ICT) since the 1970s and its effect on the manufacturing transnational corporation (MTNC) in four key areas: management control, design, manufacturing process, and the office. Management control is examined in two areas: the coordination and monitoring of functions. ICT assists in both the improvement of p...

In order to improve the utilization of materials, improving stamping cage processing methods, the single row tapered roller bearing cage is improved from structural strength, puts forward whole stamping cage a type of structure. Use ANSYS finite element analysis to the different structure and the thickness cage. Get the stress contours of the cage, based on equal strength design principles. Get...

In order to stabilize the global climate the world’s governments must make significant commitments to drastically reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One of the most promising methods of curbing GHG emissions is a world transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells offer a technically sustainable solution to the projected enormous future en...

Software continues to play an ever-increasing role throughout manufacturing systems, in many cases as the prime contributor to Overall Factory Effectiveness (OFE), as well as system reliability, capability, operational cost and ramp-up and reconfiguration cost. The integration of information technology in manufacturing is one of the most important drivers for productivity growth in the manufact...

The main objective of this paper is to study the Distributed Scheduling (DS) problems in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) environment using simulation model. This FMS is assumed to be single factory and multi factory which are analyzed by production capacity, throughput, utilization and work-in-process (WIP) by considering scheduling rules. The rules which are includes Largest processing tim...

In this paper, research towards interactive learning for Manufacturing Assistants is presented. The aim of this research is to develop a robot which can easily be instructed how to either perform tasks autonomously or in co-operation with humans. We describe the prototype of our Manufacturing Assistant and the methods developed for teaching new tasks and environments. The functionality has been...