As new technologies have been changing the production scenario, sustainable practices stand out as possible solutions to harmonise industrial activities and biodiversity conservation for benefit of humanity. In this context, a proposal based on concepts Triple Bottom Line evaluating sustainability index will be presented in order fill some gaps literature models indices. The methodological appr...

Integration of additive manufacturing (AM) into series production demands for comprehensive methods and tools. An agent-based process chain simulation framework is proposed to embed AM a cyber-physical system. A multi-dimensional evaluation supports the planning chains as well their day-to-day operation. The detailed possibilities down product single event level are illustrated by case study, i...

A manufacturing feature can be defined simply as a geometric shape and its manufacturing information to create the shape. In a feature-based process planning system, feature library that consists of pre-defined manufacturing features and the manufacturing information to create the shape of the features, plays an important role in the extraction of manufacturing features with their proper manufa...

Timely insight into manufacturing processes events can help in improving its efficiency and agility. Events are state change in process execution that can be not only monitored but correlated and managed in order to take immediate action. In this paper a new approach to develop event driven manufacturing process management solutions is presented. The event-driven architecture is considered as t...

This keynote paper focuses on the process plans and planning functions as the important link between the features of generations of products/product families and the features, capabilities and configurations of manufacturing systems and components throughout their respective life cycles. The challenges presented by the paradigm shift in manufacturing systems and their increased flexibility and ...

We present a constraint-based model and planning engine for manufacturing process planning. By exploiting the expressive power of constraint programming (CP), all relevant, sometimes conflicting pieces of domain knowledge are represented. The planner applies standard propagation techniques and customized search to find cost-optimal solutions in presence of hard, soft and conditional constraints...

This paper describes an expert system that helps designers select a manufacturing process in the early stage of product design. First, the paper focuses on net-shape manufacturing processes and identifies the major factors that affect the selection of an appropriate process. Examples of these factors include shape, production volume, and material. A versatile methodology should consider all the...