Along with the progress of globalization, speed and efficiency have become more critical for any industry than ever before. In this sense, the concept and methods of lean management, promoting these performances, have been deployed from manufacturing, its origin industry, to other industries. This paper deals with this management style in the construction industry, called lean construction. In ...

Optimization of the complete manufacturing and supply process has become a critical ingredient for gaining a competitive advantage. This article provides a unified mathematical framework for modeling manufacturing cell configuration and raw material supplier selection in a two-level supply chain network. The commonly used manufacturing design parameters along with supplier selection and a subco...

The US Pharmacopeia (USP) Therapeutic Peptides Expert Panel was formed in 2013 to evaluate quality attributes for synthetic peptide APIs based on currently available regulatory guidance and expectations. This series of three articles by the panel explores the current manufacturing and regulatory landscape and provides a comprehensive overview of quality attributes to be considered for successfu...

Manufacturing Flexibility is the ability of a manufacturing system to respond, at a reasonable cost and appropriate speed, to planned or unplanned changes in external or internal environments. It is accomplished by multidimensional attributes of the manufacturing system. In the global, rapidly changing modern market conditions manufacturing flexibility becomes a necessity in many industrial env...

This paper proposes a vision for a new research domain emerging on the interface between design and manufacturing of VLSI circuits. The key objective of this domain is the minimization of the mismatch between design and manufacturing which is rapidly growing with the increase in complexity of VLSI designs and IC technologies. This broad objective is partitioned into a number of specific tasks. ...

ABSTRACT Six Sigma is a widely used moniker to represent a set of design and manufacturing techniques, the aggregate of which should effectively improve quality and lower cost. Six Sigma implies that six standard deviations of performance should be maintained between the performance mean and the closest specification limit. When multiple performance attributes must be satisfied, aggregation tec...

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Therapeutic Peptides Expert Panel was formed in 2013 at the direction of the Monographs-Biologics & Biotechnology Expert Committee to evaluate quality attributes for synthetic peptides based on currently available regulatory guidance and expectations. This series of three articles by the panel explores the current manufacturing and regulatory landscape and p...

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) Therapeutic Peptides Expert Panel was formed in 2013 to evaluate quality attributes for synthetic peptides based on currently available regulatory guidance and expectations. Public quality standards for drug products and drug substances are developed by USP and enforceable by FDA. This series of three articles by the Panel explores the current ma...

a water jet machining is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using avery high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. this paperaddresses the concept of the intelligent knowledge base system (ikbs) for optimization of productdesign and manufacturing process for water jet machining in computer based concurrentengineering environment. ...