The businesses have a critical role in moving the society toward sustainability. The fast changing and dynamic global business environment requires firms to be more flexible to quickly adapt and respond to market changes. Among the forces that drive changes, requirements for corporate responsibility and sustainability are getting more urgent. During such difficult time as this economic downturn...

1 Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE, SangolquíPOBOX: 171-5-231B, Quito, Ecuador, South América. 2 Department of Biotechnology, Universidad de las Américas UDLA, Quito, Ecuador. 3 Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Pune, India. 4 Department of Environmental Engineering, Universidad Estatal Amazonica, Puyo, Ecuador. 5 Loyola ICAM College of Engineering a...

Object-oriented technology has become mature enough to satisfy many new requirements coming from areas like computer-aided design (CAD), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), or software engineering (SE). However, a competetive information management infrastructure often demands to merge data from CAD-, CIM-, or SE-systems with business data stored in a relational system. In addition, comple...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.039 ⇑ Tel.: +82 41 550 5376; fax: +82 41 550 5185. E-mail address: [email protected] Most manufacturing companies cooperate with manufacturing partners in order to have flexible usable capacities to meet variable customer demand. In this environment, evaluations of manufacturing partners and integrated production-planni...

A comprehensive overview of the integrated development environment (IDE) of an enterprise application framework on manufacturing application domain which is currently being developed is presented. This IDE is developed to support in the design, development, debugging and deployment of manufacturing application systems. This is achieved through the use of integrated reusable components that are ...

The history of micro system electronics is briefly traced through the successive stages of: miniaturization; subminiaturization; microminiaturization; thin-film integrated circuits; semiconductor integrated circuits; and finally morphological integrated circuits or functional blocks. The term integrated circuit is defined as the combination, on or within a single chunk of material, of multiple ...

computer-integrated manufacturing (cim), technologies are presented as solutions tomanufacturing organizations, which need to perform well in all customer-related dimensionssimultaneously. in the literature, cim technologies providing such benefits as more frequentproduction changes, reduced inventory level, improved ability of producing complex parts with ahigh degree of accuracy and repeatabi...

Reliable and economical fabrication of metallic parts with complicated geometries is of considerable interest for the aerospace, medical, automotive, tooling, and consumer products industries. In an effort to shorten the time-to-market, decrease the manufacturing process chain, and cut production costs of products produced by these industries, research has focused on the integration of multiple...

Layered manufacturing (LM) or rapid prototyping is a process in which a part is produced using layer-by-layer addition of the material. In LM, slicing of the CAD model of a part to be produced is one of the important steps. Slicing of CAD model with a very small slice thickness leads to large build time. At the same time if large slice thickness is chosen, the surface Žnish is very bad due to s...