The effective planning of a product’s manufacture is critical to both its cost and delivery time. Recognition of this importance has motivated over thirty years of research into automated planning systems and generated a large literature covering many different manufacturing technologies. But complete automation has proved difficult in most manufacturing domains. However, as manufacturing hardw...

In today's market, the global competition has put manufacturing businesses in great pressures to respond rapidly to dynamic variations in demand patterns across products and changing product mixes. To achieve substantial responsiveness, the manufacturing activities associated with production planning and control must be integrated dynamically, efficiently and cost-effectively. This paper presen...

Cloud Manufacturing and Cloud Service is currently one of the main directions of development in the manufacturing industry. Under the CloudManufacturing environment, the characteristics of publishing, updating, searching, and accessing manufacturing resources are massive, complex, heterogeneous, and so forth. A bilayer manufacturing resource model with separation of Cloud End and Cloud Manufact...

Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) shall be considered as a system integrated with different intelligent subsystems, which completes the distributed solution procedure on the basis of exchanging large quantities of materials, energy and information. Any intelligent manufacturing process selfregulates and self-controls itself in manufacturing the products within the design specifications. It...

Having an accurate capacity planning is always an ultimate goal for semiconductor manufacturing. However, as capacity planning is highly affected by the demand forecast uncertainty, there is a necessity to make the gap closer to ensure profitability. The paper defines the problems faced by a semiconductor company in handling capacity planning and balancing the capital investment cost against th...

Virtualization is critical for resource sharing and dynamic allocation in cloud manufacturing, a new service-oriented networked collaborative manufacturing model. In this paper, an effective method is proposed for manufacturing resources & capabilities virtualization, which contains manufacturing resources modeling and manufacturing cloud services encapsulation. A manufacturing resource virtual...