we compare two approaches for a markovian model in flexible manufacturing systems (fmss) using monte carlo simulation. the model which is a development of fazlollahtabar and saidi-mehrabad (2013), considers two features of automated flexible manufacturing systems equipped with automated guided vehicle (agv) namely, the reliability of machines and the reliability of agvs in a multiple agv jobsho...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

existence of pressure on industries for successful competition, gives redundant importance to ability of percepting future. withal, manufacturing sector is one of the important economic pillars of each country. in line with this, the purpose of this study is presenting a model of key factors affecting the future of manufacturing in islamic republic of iran. this research is an applied research ...

background and objectives: pre-requisite programs (prps) are “primary conditions and requirements essential for haccp operations, which are crucial in food safety programs”. the present study was conducted to evaluate the impact of implementation of prps on the microbial parameters of pasteurized milk (according to the national standard of iran). effectiveness of haccp operation requirements an...

Industries are struggling in their business during economy crisis. In order to recover from that, they are announcing volunteer retirement schemes and lay-off their employees, some medium and small scale industries are even closed too. In this situation, they are forced to either increase the selling price of their product or reduce their internal costs and improve the quality of their product ...

Industry-specific ergonomics guidelines are an important component in the four-pronged approach to workplace ergonomics currently pursued by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The American Furniture Manufacturers Association has taken the initiative of developing such a guideline for its members. The result of this effort is the "AFMA Voluntary Ergonomics Guideline...

In order to reach the EU: s 20-20-20 primary energy savings target, energy efficiency needs to increase. Previous research on energy use and energy efficiency has focused mainly on the diffusion of energy efficient technologies. The discrepancy between optimal and actual implementation of energy efficient technologies has been illustrated in numerous articles and is often referred to as the ene...

The goal of the ORGTECH-project is to improve the cooperation between two engineering offices on the one hand, and a major German steel mill, on the other. An integrated change process has been initiated which combines the introduction of a groupware application with methods of organization development. This change process draws on the framework of Integrated Organization and Technology Develop...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is enabling the fabrication of materials with engineered lattice structures at the micron scale. These mesoscopic structures fall between the length scale associated with the organization of atoms and the scale at which macroscopic structures are constructed. Dynamic compression experiments were performed to study the emergence of behavior owing to the lattice period...