Manufacturing Systems provide one of the most important applications of simulation. Simulation has been used successfully as an aid in the design of new production facilities and as well to evaluate suggested improvements to existing systems. There are many simulation tools available for simulating activities of manufacturing, however the today’s complex manufacturing situation demands for the ...

In last decades, mobile factories have been used due to their high production capability, carrying their equipment and covering rough and uneven routes. Nowadays, more companies use mobile factories with the aim of reducing the transportation and manufacturing costs. The mobile factory must travel between the suppliers, visit all of them in each time period and return to the initial location of...

Increasing material’s strength is of particular importance. Improving material’s mechanical properties such as strength could reduce the size and weight of the structure. The size and weight of the structure are among the effective parameters in design. Since the past a variety of methods have been developed to increase the strength of metals that are capable of increasing metals’ strength to a...

Extendedor long-range tracking effectiveness is crucial for the automation of manufacturing systems. In this paper, we conceptualize and develop a prototype long-range hybrid tracker based on a combination of a laser tracker and a magnetic tracker and apply the concept to the following two applications: 1) extended-range human motion tracking on factory floors and 2) factory floor object recons...

Agile Manufacturing (AM) is a new concept in manufacturing intended to improve the competitiveness of firms. In 21 st century, businesses in order to overcome their competitors, should be able to handle challenges of demanding customers seeking high quality, low cost products and also become more flexible with their specific and rapid changing needs. One of the recent concepts in support of fle...

Control systems for conventional manufacturing systems are designed based on division in scope and control problems organized into hierarchical levels such as, enterprise control, factory control, and shop-floor control. However, currently manufacturing systems must assure integration and reconfiguration flexibility characteristics, i.e., a reconfigurable manufacturing system must collaborate e...

The increasing variety of products associated with a reduction of lot sizes leads to a growing complexitiy of logistics at small and medium-sized businesses. Nevertheless those companies want to maintain their flexibility and adaptability of their manufacturing systems. The creation of a flexible and versatile manufacturing logistics system for small and medium-sized businesses is thus investig...

A case study on the suitability of an existing system configuration and control policy to the manufacturing strategic objectives has been conducted in a discrete part factory that belongs to a large Swedish manufacturing company. There are two market segments for the products identified as Segment A and Segment B with different priority of competitive factors. A newly formulated manufacturing s...