Many manufacturing paradigms promise to meet the challenges of the next century much better than present approaches do. Two of these paradigms, holonic and agent-oriented manufacturing, have received a lot of attention in academia and industry lately. Their visions, however, have many concepts in common, such as autonomy, cooperation, and self-organization. In order to assess the difference bet...

Most business negotiations in supply chain and information exchange in manufacturing processes are heavily human-involved using proprietary data formats. The processes of negotiation and information exchange are usually time consuming and unreliable even in routine tasks. Software agents have been increasingly explored to improve the information flow and the decision-making process within netwo...

Virtual manufacturing systems carry out the simulation of manufacturing processes in digital environment in order to increase accuracy as well as productivity in part production. There are different error sources in machine tools such as tool deflection, geometrical deviations of moving axis and thermal distortions of machine tool structures. The errors due to tool deflection is caused by cutti...

This paper considers the problem of determining the lead-time and price to be quoted to a single order in a make-to-order manufacturing setting. The manufacturing system consists of several processing centers all subject to random failures and repairs. Because of a time window constraint on the delivery of the order, the latter has to be split among several processing centers to meet the constr...

It is necessary to incorporate technological advances achieved in the field of engineering into dentistry in order to enhance the process of diagnosis, treatment planning and enable the doctors to render better treatment to their patients. To achieve this ultimate goal long distance collaborations are often necessary. This paper discusses the various collaborative tools and their applications t...

Manufacturing industry has over the last decade become global and is operating in an integrated supply chain using e-work technology. In order to meet this challenge, education must reflect these changes and must become globally oriented. For this reason the IMS project “Global Education in Manufacturing” (GEM) has been launched. The main objective of GEM is to develop a new curriculum covering...

This paper proposes a new decision making structure to determine the appropriate product delivery strategy for different products in a manufacturing system among make-to-stock, make-toorder, and hybrid strategy. Given product delivery strategies for all products in the manufacturing system, the position of the Order Penetrating Point (OPP) can be located regarding the delivery strategies among ...

In today’s manufacturing community, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are becoming important. There is a global trend towards flexible manufacturing systems with an increasing number of countries competing for a share of the world market. FMS are increasingly required for companies to meet the demand for high quality, reasonably priced products. FMS allow a manufacturer to quickly change pro...

By examining sheet metal parts it is rather evident that each sheet metal shape has its own manufacturing procedure. There are several manufacturing devices behind each procedure. This means that each shape can be divided into manufacturing features, which consist of shapes of sheet metal and their manufacturing methods. When creating rules and structures for manufacturing features, it is possi...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.039 ⇑ Tel.: +82 41 550 5376; fax: +82 41 550 5185. E-mail address: [email protected] Most manufacturing companies cooperate with manufacturing partners in order to have flexible usable capacities to meet variable customer demand. In this environment, evaluations of manufacturing partners and integrated production-planni...