In a manufacturing perspective, a successful product introduction requires attention for the product quality, the introduction process, manufacturing scale and ICT support for manufacturing processes. The patterns that have been found in the product lifecycle provide information on what product introduction scenarios need to be supported. If these scenarios are considered upfront, they can aid ...

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Abstract Today, hybrid manufacturing technology has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry due to the capability to make products in a more efficient and productive way. Although there is no specific consensus on the definition of the term ...

This provocation paper provides an overview of the underlying optimisation problem in the emerging field of Digital Manufacturing. Initially, this paper discusses how the notion of “Digital Manufacturing” is transforming from a term describing a suite of software tools for the integration of production and design functions towards a more general concept incorporating computerised manufacturing ...

Is your company lean? It can be, with the help of MSU’s Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management. Faculty in the Institute have been looking in depth at lean processes and how they can be implemented in Mississippi furniture and supplying companies. A series of studies that relate specifi cally to the development and use of lean manufacturing techniques in furniture and wood componen...

It has been recently shown that manufacturing p-n-junctions, field-effect and bipolar transistors, thyristors in a multilayer structure by diffusion or ion implantation with the optimization of dopant and/or radiation defects leads to increase the sharpness of p-n-junctions (both single p-n-junctions and p-n-junctions framework their system). Due to the optimization, one can also obtain increas...

This paper discusses the rationale of process platform-based production configuration in mass customization production. A multilevel system of nested colored object-oriented Petri nets (PNs) with changeable structures is developed to model the configuration of production processes. The obtained process for a new member of a product family involves both manufacturing and assembly processes for t...

Because of increasing competition and cost pressure, the manufacturing industry is currently undergoing massive changes that are facilitated by the usage of Information Technologies. Two particular aspects are the usage of Business Process Management (BPM) and Cloud technologies concepts in the manufacturing domain. Rapid elasticity is crucial for the enactment of manufacturing processes in the...

Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies are increasingly being used in manufacturing processes. These use real and simulated objects to create a simulated environment that can be used to enhance the design and manufacturing processes. Virtual and Augmented Realty Applications in Manufacturing is written by experts from the world's leading institutions working in virtual manufacturing and giv...

 This paper discusses models for manufacturing systems that are based on generalized stochastic Petri nets and on Markov decision processes. We employ generalized stochastic Petri nets to model manufacturing processes with high degree of uncertainty due to the human operator behavior. We extend the usual generalized stochastic Petri nets by allowing imprecision about probabilities to be explic...