This study examines the effects of the fit between generic manufacturing strategies (GMS) and manufacturing objectives upon strategically relevant plant level performance outcomes (e.g. cost-efficiency, quality, delivery, flexibility, and innovation). The proposition that plants with generic manufacturing strategies that are consistent (fit) with operational objectives will experience relativel...

The modeling and control flexible-manufacturing workcells (FMCs) has generally been performed in a hierarchical structure, where at the highest level they have been modeled as discrete-event systems (DESs). In this paper, a new DES control synthesis technique that combines Moore Automata (MA) and ControlledAutomata theories to synthesize supervisors is presented. The obtained supervisors can mo...

This paper outlines present and future directions for software in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. The three major CIM components -production management, data management, and communications management -are described in terms of software available today and future software based on emerging international standards. Key standards efforts such as product data exchange, open s...

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO PROCESS CONTROL A discussion of Statistical Process Control, Total Productive Maintenance, and Automated Process Control in production processes. The control of production processes is the subject of several disciplines, such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Automated Process Control (APC). Although these disciplines are tra...

In this paper a conception of using Lean Manufacturing methodology in disassembly and reassembly processes (Remanufacturing) is presented. Nine scenarios of material and information flows in Remanufacturing processes were developed in order to cover most of possible real situations.

This paper concerns the hypersampler implemented for my piece Il grifo nelle perle nere for piano and hypersampler, composed in 2008 and premiered during the 54 Venice Biennale’s International Festival of Contemporary Music, in the framework of XVII CIM – Colloquium on Music Informatics. The hypersampler involves a real-time synthesis engine based on processes of feature extraction as an altern...

This paper presents a brief overview of the work on translation of Common Information Model (CIM) to Web Ontology Language (OWL) standard. The main motivation for the work is given, along with discussion of major issues faced during this work. The paper contains also comparison of existing approaches to conversion of CIM to OWL and presents the CIM2OWL tool that performs the conversion of CIM s...

Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is increasingly becoming a viable manufacturing process due to dramatic advantages that are achievable in the area of design complexity. Through the exploration of the design freedom, this paper introduces the concept of manufacturing textiles for potential smart and high performance textile applications. This paper discusses the current limitations associated with the ...

With an increased use of composite materials follows a need for rational, cost-efficient manufacturing processes. This paper explores how off-the-shelf solutions, developed for other purposes than composite manufacturing, can be used to build systems for automated composite manufacturing. Three demonstrators, each of them dealing with a specific type of material and all of them representing dif...

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