This study undertook to discern the effect the production strategy dimension had on technological growth in a developing country. It utilized robust indicators that measured the penetration of advanced manufacturing technologies in the Ugandan machine tool driven industry. Poor or the lack thereof of comprehensive production strategies had a profound effect on the development of this industry. ...

Resin Transfer Molding (RTM), as a method for the manufacture of advanced ber reinforced composite materials, is attractive because it ooers the possibility of lower manufacturing costs and more complex shapes than traditional methods. A major issue in this new manufacturing process is the elimination of void spaces in the resin ll operation, so that products with high quality are manufactured....

This paper covers the status on present manufacturing and assembly techniques and trends in new manufacturing technologies for the development of future combat aircraft. Aircraft building involves lot of challenges right from a detail component stage to the sub-assembly and assembly stage because of the complexity involved in the design and manufacturing of aerodynamic contour with weight contr...

The digital manufacturing (DM) is base for Industry 4.0, that have following dimensions: (i) based on advanced digital-oriented technologies, (ii) smart products (advanced production mode and new characteristics), (iii) supply - chain (procurement of raw materials delivery finished products). Bidirectional exchange information in collaborative production, using it also platforms design the inno...

Worldwide competition among manufacturing enterprises has acted as a driving force for the design, development and utilization of manufacturing systems with an increased degree of agility. In these regards, Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) are considered an intelligent systems paradigm to meet requirements for agile manufacturing systems. Despite all advantages of HMS, design and implementat...

This paper discusses a distance learning system with reality transmission capability. Actual experience is crucial for education, in that much knowledge is obtained through the comparison of predictions with experimental results. Reality transmission capability allows real experiments to be performed in a distance learning system. Requirements for such a system are: (1) reality transmission cap...

Software patterns represent a promising research area in reason of the subsequent benefits of its application, mainly in terms of productivity reached with the reuse. In automatic, architectural patterns can be applied in recurrent problems involving diverse types of computational systems. A complex application, for which architectural patterns can bring great contribution, is the Supervisory C...

Mass customization is implemented to provide outstanding service to customers with diverse tastes and preferences. However, mass customization has limitations in the traditional value chain and production paradigm. Taking advantage of advanced information technology, such as manufacturing grid and virtual enterprise, to facilitate mass customization and improve the customer perceived valued of ...