This work is part of a research project on product-driven automation that makes the product active for business and manufacturing purposes. The paper focuses on the design and the simulation of a product-driven control system to ensure better synchronization between informational and physical flows. Feasibility of the productdriven concept is evaluated by the development of an industrial test-b...

The integration of conceptual process planning and early design stages is a vital activity in the modern industrial environment. Since major manufacturing time is committed in product specification and design, it is critical to be able to assess manufacturing as early as possible in the design process. In this research, an algorithm is developed to build an (Integration of Product Design and Pr...

THE manufacturing industry in particular has been home to considerable activity in recent years targeting new innovations based on the IoT. This has included standardization initiatives and the creation of ecosystems that tie together the manufacturing and IT industries, with the launch in the USA of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) led by General Electric Company (GE), and the launch i...

In this research effort an ODSS was developed to support strategic planning and decision making of an industrial company. The financial strategies of a growing firm were of greatest interest. It is highlighted that an industrial company has several internal and external strategies to finance the required funds, working capital as well as production fixed capacity. We emphasize that the financia...

As competitive pressures increase within the manufacturing sectors of economies worldwide, and especially within the automotive sub-sector, the importance of achieving operational efficiencies to reduce costs and thence to increase profits while keeping and attracting customers steadily increases. Simulation, time studies, and value stream mapping have long been key allies of the industrial eng...

Background: Human–robot collaboration is essential for efficient manufacturing and logistics as robots are increasingly used. Using industrial part of an automation system results in many competitive benefits, including improved quality, efficiency, productivity, reduced waste errors. When used production, human coworkers’ psychological factors can disrupt operations. This study aims to examine...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the workers safety behavior and to determine the importance of each unsafe behavior in an iranian steel manufacturing company. methods: this study was conducted in mobareke steel manufacturing company, which is located in the middle of iran, in 2007. the methodology was based on the safety behavior sampling (sbs) technique and entropy. after specifying t...

Nowadays, most of the industrial companies adopt several digital tools to improve their performance, e.g. decreasing the production costs, reducing the delivery time, optimizing the production scheduling, etc.. However, the interoperability between such digital tools is still far from being reached, thus failing to fully exploit the potentiality of a virtual manufacturing approach. This researc...

The 3M Company incinerates chemical wastes from manufacturing operations in a 23 M kcal/hr (90 MM Btu/hr) rotary kiln incinerator which has air pollution control equipment. This paper deals with the essential features which have resulted in this successful incineration operation for industrial wastes. These features include waste materials handling considerations, design aspects, and main­ tena...

drain current degradation in 0.35 m n-type lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors J. R. Lee, Jone F. Chen, Kuo-Ming Wu, C. M. Liu, and S. L. Hsu Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, L...