Manufacturing processes are required to adapt to change as businesses respond to global competition. The paper describes a framework for building distributed manufacturing processes based on an integrating infrastructure. Through a decomposition based on application function, application interoperation and application interaction, proposals are made for structuring the integration software requ...

Semiconductor manufacturing industry has elevated cost in productions. Improvement of production efficiency is always an important goal for manufacturers. Run-to-run control has been widely used in batch manufacturing processes to reduce variations. Threaded exponentially weighted moving average (threaded-EWMA) run-to-run control is an important and stable control scheme. In this paper, we stud...

The Objet PolyJet 3D Printing process provides the ability to print graded materials featuring both stiff and elastomeric polymers. This capability allows for a variety of new design possibilities for additive manufacturing such as living hinges, shock absorbing casings, and integrated gaskets. Such design features typically rely upon the ability of traditional elastomers to experience large an...

Green manufacturing is a key technology to realize eco-industry and sustainable development, it is causing people's great attention. The implementation of green manufacturing has produced revolutionary influence on the products of the manufacturing industry and manufacturing industry. Through analyzing and researching historical evolvement of product attribute, this thesis summarizes the evolvi...

Enterprise integration is mainly concerned with coordination, communication and cooperation between many concurrent business processes executed on a wide range of distributed agents (humans, applications and resources including databsase servers) in order to improve enterprise efficiency. Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is restricted to discrete manufacturing enterprises. The paper disc...

Presented in this article is a review of manufacturing techniques and introduction of reconfigurable manufacturing systems; a new paradigm in manufacturing which is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality, in response to new market conditions. A definition of reconfigurable manufacturing systems is outlined and an overview of available manufacturing techniques, th...

Lean Manufacturing has helped several industries to achieve operational and manufacturing excellence by increasing productivity and enhancing quality, while reducing waste and costs. However, the wood industry has been historically slow in adopting this philosophy and its many tools. In times when overseas competition has taken big portions of the traditional market share for U.S based wood ind...

Traditional concepts for manufacturing process optimization, e.g., Lean Production and Total Quality Management, represent management-driven and experience-based approaches. The increasing use of cyber-physical systems as well as the digitalization of manufacturing operations management by manufacturing execution systems (MES) lead to enormous amounts of structured and unstructured manufacturin...

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...