MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Admission Admission to the program as a regular student requires a BS degree in Engineering. Students with a degree in computer science or engineering can be admitted provisionally and must take certain undergraduate courses to pave the way for graduate work. Undergraduate degrees must be from an accredited program, and for regular admission must be with an ave...

In the 80’s, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) concept was adopted as a solution to all the problems in manufacturing. However, it was soon realized that the evolving demands for manufacturing systems were not handled by CIM. New alternatives rise, and especially Agent-Based Manufacturing and Holonic Manufacturing Systems, for cooping with today’s manufacturing systems requirements. From ...

Manufacturing and service systems typically have random components affecting their behavior such as the demand for products and services. Much of the focus will be given on understanding and applying quantitative methods that are useful in analyzing, designing, and operating stochastic systems. We will additionally present applications of these methods for understanding, managing and reducing v...

Co-ordination of activities within an organization can be performed in a different way. One of them is system integration. In the paper a typology and features of manufacturing systems integration concepts will be discussed. Efficiency and effectiveness assessment of net-worked integrated systems for innovation development and transfer needs special approach. A concept of a new method will be i...

The goal of intelligent manufacturing system is akin to any normal manufacturing system satisfying customer needs at the most efficient level for lowest possible cost. The involvement of computers as in the computer-integrated manufacturing has been for more than 20 years; the incorporation of computer technology does not necessarily result in intelligent manufacturing system. It is the introdu...

This paper presents the design of a holonic manufacturing execution system. The design is an instantiation of the PROSA reference architecture [1] augmented with coordination and control mechanisms inspired by natural systems i.e. food foraging behavior in ant colonies. Research prototypes are implemented as multiagent systems. The main coordination and control mechanisms ensure that the proces...