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Rapid responsiveness in terms of processing functions, production capacity and order dispatching is required from today’s production systems. This paper introduces a capability-based matchmaking procedure, which supports rapid configuration and reconfiguration of production systems. The approach relies on formal OWL-based descriptions of both product requirements and resource capabilities. The ...

The process quality capability indicators Cp and Cpk are widely used to measure capability. Traditional metric estimation methods require data be explicit normally distributed. Often, the actual obtained from production regarding measurements of features incomplete do not have a normal distribution. This means that use traditional estimating may lead erroneous results. Moreover, in case qualita...

Introduction: There is currently significant interest in all-ceramic dental restorations. A potential non-metallic material for such restorations is an apatite-mullite glass-ceramic that could be processed to shape using different processing techniques. The aim of this study was to assess and evaluate the ability of an apatite-mullite glass-ceramic material to be processed using three routes: l...

Over time there has been a shift, at least in the rhetoric, from a pipeline conceptualisation of knowledge implementation, to one that recognises the potential of more collaboration, co-productive approaches to knowledge production and use. In this editorial, which is grounded in our research and collective experience, we highlight both the potential and challenge with collaboration and co-prod...

This paper presents the economic production quantity (EPQ) models for the imperfect quality items produced with/without the presence of shortage condition. The models are presented in a two-level supply chain composed of a single manufacturer and a single buyer to investigate the performance of vendormanaged inventory (VMI) policy. The total costs are minimized to obtain the optimal production ...

Process capability analysis is designed to estimate the proportion of parts that do not meet engineering requirements in a stable production process. In this paper, we review and criticize the capability indices typically used in industry for this purpose, and propose a general multivariate Bayesian capability index which contains the conventional index as a limiting case. We further derive its...