In order to realize STEP-NC-oriented computer numerical control machining and achieve optimal performance in manufacturing, a multi-agent system for process planning in STEP-NC based manufacturing was designed. By analyzing the characteristic of STEP-NC data model, a manufacturing feature-oriented process planning method was proposed in this study and the distributed artificial intelligence met...

Productivity is a key weapon for manufacturing companies to stay competitive in a continuous growing global market. Increased productivity can be achieved through increased availability. This has directed focus on different maintenance types and maintenance strategies. Increased availability through efficient maintenance can be achieved through less corrective maintenance actions and more accur...

With the advent of fourth industrial revolution, application artificial intelligence in manufacturing domain is becoming prevalent. Maintenance one important activities process, and it requires proper attention. To decrease maintenance costs to attain sustainable operational management, Predictive (PdM) has become industries. The principle PdM forecasting next failure; thus, respective schedule...

This paper presents a planning system for Lean Manufacturing and is applicable to a variety of manual and automated manufacturing operations. By defining a standard set of Lean Manufacturing metrics, our research sets up a framework for performance measurement and benchmarking. A financial Cost of Waste measure is developed from data on current performance levels, and the planning framework dev...

This study examined the perceptions of stakeholders in the Georgia Mountains Manufacturing (GMM) region in terms of how the education providers, high schools, and technical colleges worked together to address pathways, skills-gap training, and increase human capital for the benefit of both industry and the communities in the region. The GMM initiative was funded in 2010 with a two-year grant th...

An innovative trajectory strategy was proposed and accessed for wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), applicable to different more complex geometries, rather than being a single solution. This strategy, named Pixel, can be defined as multitask procedure carry out optimized path planning, whose operation is made through computational algorithms (heuristics), with accessible resources tolerable...

The assembly line balancing problem is a non deterministic polynomial type planning problem for mass production. Layout design changes constitute a major decision that yields investment for assembly operations and numerous heuristics have been reported in the literature for solving the line balancing problems. U-shaped assembly layout offers several benefits over traditional straight-line layou...

Facility layout planning plays an important role in the manufacturing process and seriously impacts a company’s profitability. A well-planned layout can significantly reduce the total material handling cost. The purpose of this paper is to develop a two-stage inter-cell layout optimization approach by using one of the popular meta-heuristics — the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. At the first...