High quality craft manufacturers adapting industrialized approaches to design and manufacturing face the challenge of maintaining the unique quality in their craft manufacturing while realizing improvements in efficiency through their industrialization process. We studied how quality is ensured and built into the products of one highly industrialized lean manufacturer and one craft manufacturer...

Micro-manufacturing emerged in the last years as a new engineering area with the potential of increasing peoples’ quality of life through the production of innovative micro-devices to be used, for example, in the biomedical, micro-electronics or telecommunication sectors. The possibility to decrease the energy consumption makes the micro-manufacturing extremely appealing in terms of environment...

Today most research related to manufacturing strategy development concentrates on descriptive processes and conceptual models, and therefore lacks the capability of assessing the supportive degree of manufacturing strategy to competitive priorities, and is also difficult to assess the congruence among various decisions of the manufacturing strategy. This paper proposes an approach for manufactu...

We develop a data-driven decision model to improve process quality in manufacturing. A challenge for traditional methods management is handle high-dimensional and nonlinear manufacturing data. address this by adapting explainable artificial intelligence the context of management. Specifically, we propose use modeling with Shapley additive explanations infer how set production parameters system ...

In certain statistical process control applications, quality of a process or product can be characterized by a function commonly referred to as profile. Some of the potential applications of profile monitoring are cases where quality characteristic of interest is modelled using binary,multinomial or ordinal variables. In this paper, profiles with multinomial response are studied. For this purpo...

This paper proposes a general mixture model framework for automobile warranty data that includes parameters for product field performance, the manufacturing and assembly process, and dealer preparation process. The model fits warranty claims as a mixture of manufacturing or assembly defects (quality problems) and usage related failures (reliability problems). The model also estimates the fracti...