Currently, the mass parts production all over the world becomes more and more individual. It is required to be able to manufacture personalized complex shape parts with necessary microstructural, mechanical, thermo-physical, chemical and other properties in a quicker and a cheaper way. Selective Laser Sintering /Melting, a process of Additive manufacturing technologies, is applied to answer on ...

Additive manufacturing processes allow freeform fabrication of the physical representation of a three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) data model. This area has been expanding rapidly over the last 20 years. It includes several techniques such as selective laser sintering and stereolithography. The range of materials used today is quite restricted while there is a real demand for manufac...

Digital light processing (DLP) is an accurate additive manufacturing (AM) technology suitable for producing micro-parts by photopolymerization. As most AM technologies, anisotropy of parts made by DLP is a key issue to deal with, taking into account that several operational factors modify this characteristic. Design for this technology and photopolymers becomes a challenge because the manufactu...

While the U.S. manufacturing sector has contracted sharply since the early 1980s, employment in high-skill manufacturing occupations has risen by an impressive 37 percent. An investigation of the growth in high-skill manufacturing jobs reveals that virtually all of the nation’s industries have shared in this trend. Moreover, skill upgrading has occurred in all parts of the country, even those e...

Software systems used in manufacturing control (especially the flexible manufacturing systems or some parts CIM) often have an architecture possessing many advantageous software engineering properties. Some techniques related to the architecture called software confederation (e.g. interface stability and incremental development) are discussed. Surprisingly enough the architecture of software co...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...