During the Summer of 2013 in a conference organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Madison, Wisconsin, a panel of academic, industrial, and government researchers engaged in a spirited discussion on the issue of geometric interoperability for advanced manufacturing.1 It was set in the background of heightened anxiety in various Western countries about the relative dec...

this article addresses a single row facility layout problem where the objective is to optimize the arrangement of some rectangular facilities with different dimensions on a line. regarding the np-hard nature of the considered problem, a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing has been proposed to obtain a near optimal solution. a number of test problems are randomly generat...

this paper addresses the concept of co 2 laser beam machining (lbm) and development of intelligent knowledge base system (ikbs) for co 2 lbm. feature based design is used for acquiring design specification. for optimization of laser beam machining computer based concurrent engineering environment is used. the ikbs is linked to feature base cad system. the ikbs is also linked to material databas...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to disrupt ceramic industry by offering new opportunities manufacture advanced components without need for expensive tooling, thereby reducing production costs and lead times increasing design freedom. Whilst development implementation of AM technologies in been slower than polymer metal industries, there is now considerable interest developing proc...

Purpose: Important performance objectives manufacturers sought can be achieved through adopting the appropriate manufacturing practices. This paper presents a conceptual model proposing relationship between advanced quality practices, perceived manufacturing difficulties and manufacturing performances. Design/methodology/approach: A survey-based approach was adopted to test the hypotheses propo...