The LS-DYNA nonlinear finite element analysis software package developed for structural analysis by the Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC) is widely used by the automobile, aerospace, construction, military, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries. Fujitsu has been a partner with LSTC since 1996, supporting customers in Japan. A common application of LS-DYNA is car crash simu...

The Final Process System is an important part of the entire quality assurance system in the automobile manufacturing process. Operators and machines perform a series of crucial testing procedures before shipping a vehicle. Many complex factors impact the system throughput. The important ones are first time success rate, repair and service routing logic, process layout, operator staffing, capaci...

Motivated by recent empirical observations made in industries like the automobile industry, this paper employs an agent-based industry simulation model to examine the strategic relationship between product diversification strategies in an industry and some aspects of the product innovation strategy of a single producer. In particular, it is established that an increase in the average degree of ...

Ti-Al-Si alloys are prospective material for high-temperature applications. Due to low density, good mechanical properties, and oxidation resistance, these intermetallic alloys can be used in the aerospace and automobile industries. Ti-Al-Si alloys were prepared by powder metallurgy using reactive sintering, milling, and spark plasma sintering. One of the novel SPS techniques is high-pressure s...

Abstract— As the market becomes more global, logistics is now seen as an important area where industries can cut costs and improve their customer service quality. The latest trend is to outsource logistics activities to the outside company (known as third party logistics or 3PL) to allow the outsourcing company to concentrate on the core competence, improve the service and many more. A framewor...

Laser welding is an advance non-traditional and high energy beam welding technique for dissimilar material, which is being increasingly used in industries like automobile, nuclear reactors, aerospace etc. Again it is a very tough task to joining dissimilar materials due to their properties variation. In this present work two dissimilar metals such as copper and AISI 304 stainless steel are take...

In this paper, welding of dissimilar metals was demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, by using a high-energy high-repetition-rate femtosecond fiber laser. Metallurgical and mechanical properties were investigated and analyzed under various processing parameters (pulse energy, repetition rate, and welding speed). Results showed that the formation of intermetallic brittle...

There are many kinds of automobile after-sale service spare parts, which are with a complex relationship in replacement and a large time span in models. The management of automobile after-sale service spare parts is a challenge, not only for automobile manufacturer but also for distributor. Therefore, it becomes an important and difficult task for automobile enterprises to do well in the supply...

Modern engineering design, analysis and manufacturing activities rely heavily on software to handle increasing volumes of data and model complexity. Automated Feature Recognition (AFR) technologies are highly demanded by manufacturing sectors since AFR can efficiently improve the performance of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) processes and reduce costs. Nevertheless, most existing FR applications a...