Within Leapfrog project, the general task is to design an effective and efficient manufacturing solution coping with the needs of the mass customization competitive scenario, overcoming the limitations which have so far prevented the automation of the garment assembly, through a comprehensive and general (‘holistic’) redesign of the cloth manufacturing process properly exploiting flexible autom...

This article provides a case study for a fire extinguisher manufacturing company in North America that has been building a new facility in Mexico to benefit from North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and low production cost. The company utilized a value stream mapping to finalize its new facility’s manufacturing process design, and divided the process into several groups, some of which wer...

This paper presents an application of optic flow estimation to image metamorphosis. It uses a state of the art optical flow algorithm to do image metamorphosis, which is used in video production. The method presented automates the labor intensive process of image animation. It an advanced optic flow algorithm but the rest of it is simple: most of the code fits in the limited space of this summary.

This paper discusses a simplified design of Humanoid Robot with 8 DOF. The main objective is to analyze the theoretical and practical challenges involved in making it. The paper emphasis on bringing down the control complexity by reducing the number of actuators used . This in turn simplifies the entire design processes and reduces the production cost. It also describes the stability issues and...

this paper presents a strategy for using harmony search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. in this paper an adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. this method finds an optimal facility arrangement in an existing layout. two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model. a comparison is ...

The layout design problem is a strategic issue and has a significant impact on the efficiency of a manufacturing system. Much of the existing layout design literature that uses a surrogate function for flow distance or for simplified objectives may be entrapped into local optimum; and subsequently lead to a poor layout design due to the multiple-attribute decision making (MADM) nature of a layo...

The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) facility layout problem (FLP) involves the positioning of cells within a given area so as to minimize the material flow costs between cells. The FLP design includes specifying the spatial coordinates of each cell, the orientation of each cell in either a horizontal or vertical position, and the position of each cell’s pickup and dropoff points. The layout...