A manufacturing supply chain is an integrated set of business functions, encompassing all activities from raw material acquisition to final customer delivery. Delivering the right product at the right time in the right amount are essential objectives of efficient and effective supply chain systems. Thus, measures must be taken to ensure that all operational components of the supply chain system...

Excessive variation in a manufacturing process is one of the major causes of a high defect rate and poor product quality. Therefore, quick detection of changes, especially increases in process variability, is essential for quality control. In modern manufacturing environments, most of the quality characteristics that have to be closely monitored are multivariate by the nature of the application...

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In response to increasing patient awareness of esthetic dental rehabilitation, the preference today is for all-ceramic restorations, which show superior biocompatibility and similar light characteristics to the natural tooth. The fit of a dental restoration depends on quality throughout the entire manufacturing process. The final result is affected by multiple factors, such as preparation of th...

APRIL 2005 V accine development follows two major parallel paths. One path is from discovery research to clinical evaluation and proof of efficacy. The other is from experimental methods making small test quantities of a putative protective antigen to process development for manufacturing a useful product. The second path involves manufacturing process optimization, chemical engineering, and ap...

The main problem with modern quality control of sound speakers is that the process is conducted manually. This manual checking of the quality of sound speakers is time consuming. In order to find an automated way of doing this, this paper presents an intelligent system for automated quality control in sound speaker manufacturing, which fuses Fractal Dimension (FD) into Artificial Neural Network...

From restructuring of the telecommunications market, accelerated reduction of component pricing has emerged. High yield manufacturing practices are an important factor to support price reduction while insuring high quality throughput. Improvements in Bragg grating manufacturing have been realized through the development of a novel semi-batch automation process. Although the entire process of fi...

A new technique for finding the root cause for problems in a manufacturing process is presented. The new technique is designated to continuously and automatically detect quality drifts on various manufacturing processes and then induce the common root cause. The proposed technique consists of a fast, incremental algorithm that can process extremely high dimensional data and handle more than one...

The paper dealt with basic approaches of intelligent systems implementation in manufacturing processes diagnostics of CNC machines. There are several approaches such as either the usage of external or internal intelligent systems. The goal of implementation is the control of manufacturing process in order to influence the examined process quality and economy. The present development in field of...

Micro-manufacturing processes are characterized by high process variability and an increased significance of measurement uncertainty in relation to tight tolerance specifications. Therefore, an approach that separates the superposition of measurement and manufacturing variation is demanded. A novel design for a quality control chart that makes it possible to monitor, control and extract measure...