Fungicide benomyl is easily decomposed to carbendazim (MBC) and butyl isocyanate (BIC) in formulation, BIC is further hydrolyzed to butylamine. The BIC also reacts with butylamine to form N,N'-dibutylurea (DBU), a phytotoxic compound. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of selected additives and the manufacturing method of benomyl water dispersible granules (WG) on reducing...

With the increasing level of competition in many competitive environments, a body of research regards the ability to formulate and implement a formulated strategy as an equally important source of competitive advantage. The rate of change in both internal and external environments of manufacturing firms is increasing, which necessitates that increased attention be paid to strategic planning and...

This paper deals with the transient analysis of manufacturing systems in the presence of failures and repairs. The exact model is decomposed into 1) a structure state process, modeling the failure and repair events which occur at a slower time scale, and 2) a performance model, modeling the part processing and material movement events occurring at a faster time scale. The solutions of these two...

The concave cost supply management problem consists in optimization of product delivery from a set of providers to the manufacturing units (single unit and single planning period in our case) with respect to delivery cost functions of concave type. Given the lower and upper bounds on the shipment size for each provider, the demand of the manufacturing unit has to be satisfied. In this chapter i...

As product cycles become shorter and the demand for customized products becomes greater, flexibility in production capabilities becomes mandatory. This trend requires manufacturing enterprises to be highly flexible with the ability to timely reallocate manufacturing resources. Wireless communications provides a natural ability to support the flexibility required by reconfigurable manufacturing ...

A new Co-platforming methodology is introduced for mapping product features platform and corresponding manufacturing system machines platform. A cluster of platform and non-platform system machines are derived using matrix formulation and manipulation. The objective of Coplatforming is to establish the mapping between platforms of products and manufacturing machines for use in synthesizing syst...

Reducing manufacturing lead times and minimizing work-in-process (WIP) inventories are the cornerstones of popular manufacturing strategies such as Lean, Quick Response, and Just-inTime Manufacturing. In this paper, we present a model that captures the relationship between facility layout and congestion-related measures of performance. We use the model to introduce a formulation of the facility...

Drawing on multiple sources, we identify technological, global and workforce trends that will affect the formulation and implementation of manufacturing strategy in the next decade. We then describe several theories from economics, sociology, and psychology and show how they can be used to enrich our interpretations of the effects of these trends. Throughout, we offer suggestions for future res...

A formal approach to distributed supervisory control synthesis for automated manufacturing systems is presented in this paper. The discrete manufacturing system (plant) is modeled with automata in a modular way and local control specifications are defined for each local subsystem by means of logical equations in order to construct local supervisors. To establish global control, global specifica...

The analysis of trade-offs between competitive priorities is one of the core issues in manufacturing strategy research. However, past studies focused mainly on empirical validation of the trade-off concept. There has been limited research on practical aspects of trade-off management, especially methods for trade-off improvement and the incorporation of trade-off analysis into manufacturing stra...