In Statistics of Extremes the estimation of parameters of extreme or even rare events is usually done under a semi-parametric framework. The estimators are based on the largest k ordered statistics in the sample or on the excesses over a high level u and although showing good asymptotic properties, most of them present a strong dependence on k or u with high bias when the k increases or the lev...

Information system has become the indispensable support platform required by daily operations in modern enterprises. IC manufacturing industry is the most important base of advanced information products. Its rich knowledge innovation, complex production process, and high degree of cooperation require particular risk management on information security. On the basis of referencing to latest infor...

This paper describes the development of an agent-based framework for the intelligent control of flexible manufacturing systems. An FMS is a complex manufacturing system, in which the control system is responsible for the planning, control and monitoring functions. Traditionally, manufacturing systems are commonly established with hierarchical control architecture. This approach is not flexible ...

Rapid prototyping (RP) is an automated manufacturing process that quickly builds physical models from CAD files of 3D prototypes. With the high advanced network technologies, many different software and hardware systems can be integrated as a distributed platform to provide more services, solve more complicated problems and achieve better performance. The main objective of this paper is to deve...

ABSTRACT Advanced information technologies have become absolutely necessary part of companies in today’s competitive environment. The emergence of new information technologies is very speedy. One of the advanced enterprise information technologies that emerged in the past decade is Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system. ERP is a total integrated, computerized business management system tha...

Many words have been written about the dangers of advanced nanotechnology. Most of the threatening scenarios involve tiny manufacturing systems that run amok, or are used to create destructive products. A manufacturing infrastructure built around a centrally controlled, relatively large, self-contained manufacturing system would avoid these problems. A controlled nanofactory would pose no inher...

A novel manufacturing strategy based on continuous processing integrated with online monitoring tools coupled with efficient automatic feedback control system is highly desired for efficient Quality by Design (QbD) based manufacturing of the next generation of pharmaceutical products with optimal consumption of time, space and resources. In this manuscript, an efficient plant-wide control strat...

The present investigation presents a stochastic model for a flexible manufacturing system consisting of flexible machine, loading/unloading robot and an automated pallethandling device. We consider unreliable flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) wherein machine and robot operate under individual as well as common cause random failures. The pallethandling system is completely reliable. The pallet o...

The increased use of advanced composites in aerospace manufacturing has led to the development of new production processes and technology The implementation of advanced composites manufacturing technology is poorly served by traditional cost accounting methods, which distort costs by using inappropriate volume-based allocations of overhead. Activity-based costing has emerged as a methodology, w...

In the present study, nonlinear vibration of coupled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in presence of surface effect is investigated based on nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam (EBB) theory. CNTs are embedded in a visco-elastic medium and placed in the uniform longitudinal magnetic field. Using von Kármán geometric nonlinearity and Hamilton’s principle, the nonlinear higher order governing equations are deriv...