The development and support of highly customized and serviceenhanced products requires new organizational structures, involving the manufacturers, customers and local suppliers in a process of co-creation. This requires the implementation of the glocal enterprise notion with value creation from global networked operations and involving global supply chain management, product-service linkage, an...

In this report, we present our work in visualization and augmented reality technologies supporting collaboration in manufacturing automation. Our approach is based on (i) analysis based on spatial models of automation environments, (ii) next-generation controllers based on single board computers, (iii) cloud-, serviceand web-based technologies and (iv) an emphasis on experimental development us...

In today's enterprise infrastructure, system and application integration is more and more frequently a mission-critical concern. Industrial organizations are seeking to tie edge devices into information technology (IT) systems that include manufacturing, enterprise and cloud-based applications. The objective is to take volumes of data and make it easily accessible and useful information for end...

Nowadays business environment is characterized by pressure caused by stiff competition. Demand/ distribution uncertainty and limited visibility have been a long challenge to supply chain management. New emerging technology i.e. Cloud computing will provide a sustainable competitive advantage in reaching end customers and suppliers. The real time demand information and inventory visibility probl...

The 2012 crop of Cool Vendors in manufacturing operations illustrates the importance manufacturers place on product quality and safety, as well as safe and reliable production operations. The vendors apply innovative approaches to tackling these high-priority issues. ■ Combining real-time data and risk assessment models is a paradigm shift in the world of safety management, opening the door to ...

Machining features recognition provides the necessary platform for the computer aided process planning (CAPP) and plays a key role in the integration of computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). This paper presents a new methodology for extracting features from the geometrical data of the CAD Model present in the form of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) files. ...

To achieve renovation work without noise, the authors developed techniques of manufacturing pre-cut interior finishing components for renovation work. In this paper, to achieve the system of pre-cut interior finishing components, the authors describe a measuring method of reinforced-concrete structure by 3D laser scanner and then describe a method of making a design of pre-cut interior finishin...