A local and temporal separated manufacturing becomes possible, which can enhance the economic efficiency of the production. Complex products such as spacecraft, large CNC Machine, large compressor face challenges in their development process. The cloud manufacturing which is based on the development of cloud computing and Internet of Things system makes the collaborative manufacturing process o...

This paper presents to determine the optimum number of kanbans in Generalized Kanban Control System (GKCS) at three different demand frequencies and keeping the mean processing time as constant. The configuration of the single line with three manufacturing stages is assumed to have flow line production. The manufacturing system is modeled as network diagram of GKCS using discrete event simulati...

In today’s business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives. Managers across the country are striving to adopt lean manufacturing practices to improve their bottom line cellular manufacturing and it helps to build a variety of products with as little scrap as possible. Layout a fac...

The rolling bearings dynamical behaviour analysis is a important condition to determine the machine vibration response. The rolling bearing, with outer ring fixed, is a multi body mechanical system with rolling elements that transmit motion and load from the inner raceway to the outer raceway.Modern trend of Dynamic analysis is useful in early prediction; simulation of rotor bearing system as m...

This research paper presents and discusses a manufacturing support system which supports not only maintenance services but also consulting services for manufacturing systems consisting of multi-vendor machine tools. In order to do this the system enables inter-enterprise collaboration between engineering companies and machine tool vendors. The manufacturing support system is called “After-Sales...

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are forcing major changes in the production styles and configuration of manufacturing organizations. Traditional centralised manufacturing systems are not able to meet such requirements. This paper proposes an agent-based approach for dynamically creating and managing agent communities in such widely distributed and ever-changing man...

Scheduling is a key factor for manufacturing productivity. Effective scheduling can improve on-time delivery, reduce work-in-process inventory, cut lead time, and improve machine utilization. Motivated by the extensive use of batch machines in manufacturing industries, the scheduling of job shops with batch machines is studied in this paper. Unlike machines that can process one part at a time (...

This paper deals with multi-component machine repair model having provision of warm standby units and repair facility consisting of two heterogeneous servers (primary and secondary) to provide repair to the failed units. The failure of operating and standby units may occur individually or due to some common cause. The primary server may fail partially following full failure whereas secondary se...