User requirements and low-cost small quantity production are new challenges for the modern manufacturing industry. This means that small batch sizes or even the manufacturing of one single product should be affordable. To make such a system cost-effective it should be capable to use the available production resources for many different products in parallel. This paper gives a description of the...

With the evolution of the information superhigh-way, there is now an immense amount of information available in a wide variety of databases. Furthermore , users often have the ability to access legacy software packages developed by external sources. However, sometimes both the information provided by a data source, as well as one or more of the functions available through a software package may...

A virtual factory integrated manufacturing system combined with system simulation and virtual reality is introduced in this paper. We describe the system architecture and development methodology, provide the working principle of process simulation and monitoring in virtual factory, and then explain the detailed applications of virtual factory integrated manufacturing system. With the visualizat...

Attaining high quality from manufacturing systems requires utilizing appropriate system-level quality performance modeling and analysis tools. This paper describes the application of the stochastic-flow-modeling (SFM) approach to represent the quality output behavior of a manufacturing system. To do this, a basic one-product type SFM is extended to that of a multiple-product manufacturing syste...

Intelligent agents provide a means to integrate various manufacturing software applications. The agents are typically executed in a computer-based collaborative environment, sometimes referred to as a multi-agent system. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a prototype multi-agent system supporting the integration of manufacturing planning, predictive machinin...

Agents are autonomous and computational entities that perceive their environment through sensors and act upon their environment through effectors. Application of agents in simulation of manufacturing system helps in modelling the concurrent behaving entities close to the real system. A manufacturing agent should be modelled to impart the required functionality to the manufacturing entity. As ag...

Many of industries are going to stand in the market in front of their competitor with a lot of industrial growth and good quality of product. But in this race they don’t think about the flexibility in customer relation or satisfaction as well as operational flexibility. Lean manufacturing provide the use of everything for industrial growth and Flexible manufacturing system gives the direction w...

In this paper we propose a method for the detection of dialogue scenes within movies. This task is of particular interest given the special semantic role played by dialogue based scenes in the most part of movies. The proposed approach firstly operates the segmentation of the video footage in shots, then each shot is classified as dialogue or not-dialogue by a Multi-Expert System (MES) and, fin...

The main contribution of the work is to develop an intelligent system for manufacturing features in the area of CAD/CAM. It brings the design and manufacturing phase together in design stage and provides an intelligent interface between design and manufacturing data by developing a library of features. The library is called manufacturing feature library which is linked with commercial CAD/CAM s...