The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

In today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. The manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. One of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. Most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important fact...

BACKGROUND Good drug regulation requires an effective system for monitoring and inspection of manufacturing and sales units. In India, despite widespread agreement on this principle, ongoing shortages of drug inspectors have been identified by national committees since 1975. The growth of India's pharmaceutical industry and its large export market makes the problem more acute. METHODS The foc...

This paper presents a concept of development of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) by using simulations. MES is one of manufacturing systems that are used to bridge the data between the gap of the bottom layer (such as the shop floor control) and the enterprise system layer (such as Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP). The paper focuses on the functions of MES which link the levels of operatio...

Manufacturing industries are under intense pressure from the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Shorter product lifecycle, time to market and diverse customer needs have challenged manufacturers to improve the efficiency and productivity of their production activities. Manufacturing systems should be able to adjust or respond quickly to adopt necessary changes in product design and pr...

This paper investigates the issue of integrating production and maintenance planning in a failure-prone manufacturing system. It is assumed that the system's operating state is stochastically predictable, in terms of its operating age, and that it can accordingly be preventively maintained during preplanned periods. Preventive maintenance is assumed to be imperfect, that is when performed, it b...

in today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. the manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. one of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important...

Purpose: This paper explores the capabilities of genetic algorithms in handling optimization of the critical issues mentioned above for the purpose of manufacturing process planning in reconfigurable manufacturing activities. Two modified genetic algorithms are devised and employed to provide the best approximate process planning solution. Modifications included adapting genetic operators to th...

Cloud manufacturing as a trend of future manufacturing would provide cost-effective, flexible and scalable solutions to companies by sharing manufacturing resources as services with lower support and maintenance costs. Targeting the Cloud manufacturing, the objective of this research is to develop an Internetand Web-based service-oriented system for machine availability monitoring and process p...