Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

This study carries out an empirical test of the order-winners framework in manufacturing organizations. Hill [Hill, T., 1985. Manufacturing Strategy: The Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Function, first ed. Macmillan, Basingstoke; Hill, T., 2000. Manufacturing Strategy: Text and Cases, second ed. Palgrave, Basingstoke] proposed the order-winners framework to help managers to improve un...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

scheduling of production in flexible manufacturing systems (fmss) has been extensively investigated over the past years and it continues to attract the interest of both academic researchers and practitioners. the generation of new and modified production schedules is becoming a necessity in today’s complex manufacturing environment. genetic algorithms are used in this paper to obtain an initial...

the study of entrepreneurial orientation concept and codifying a proper strategy to improve the performance of companies has a great importance as the companies have allocated more product market share to themselves by representing new and unique products according to customers’ requirements. the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and competitive strat...

in this study, the effective factors on warpage in short fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites has been studied. first of all, the effective factors in manufacturing process were detected and then in order to decrease the number of experiments, the approach of design of experiments has been applied. by using micromechanics theory in composites and coefficients of thermal expansion models, a...

The Composites Manufacturing HUB puts composites manufacturing simulations in the hands of those who need them to invent new and innovative ways to capture the extraordinary benefits of these high performance products at an acceptable manufactured cost. The HUB provides the user simple browser access to powerful tools that simulate the actual steps and outcome conditions of a complex manufactur...

Timely insight into manufacturing processes events can help in improving its efficiency and agility. Events are state change in process execution that can be not only monitored but correlated and managed in order to take immediate action. In this paper a new approach to develop event driven manufacturing process management solutions is presented. The event-driven architecture is considered as t...

In order to more effectively study the resource optimization problem of complex manufacturing collaborative logistics network, the study combines the features of complex manufacturing, has a system analysis for complex manufacturing collaborative logistics network and expect to have a better understand about its internal composition. Therefore, under the guidance of Synergetic and dissipative s...