An overview is presented of the recently proposed Vehicle and Heavy Equipment Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Technology Development project under the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) of ARPA. The goals of the tasks proposed in the manufacturing process simulation area are discussed in detail, with particular emphasis on casting. An important aspect envisioned is the inte...

This is the vignette of the Bioconductor add-on package IPPD which implements automatic isotopic pattern extraction from a raw protein mass spectrum. Basically, the user only has to provide mass/charge channels and corresponding intensities, which are automatically decomposed into a list of monoisotopic peaks. IPPD can handle several charge states as well as overlaps of peak patterns. 1 Aims an...

A This paper describes the process planning techniques we developed for use in an Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) tool for the design and manufacture of microwave transmit/receive modules. Given a collection of data about the design of a microwave module, the IPPD tool uses a combination of AI planning and optimization-based tradeoff analysis to produce a collection of alternative ...

A heterogeneous computing environment characterizes today’s manufacturing situation. This is a stumbling block for the efficient implementation of manufacturing concepts such as integrated product and process design (IPPD). A computing environment for IPPD would require the seamless integration of the various product and process design software systems. The exchange of information between these...

The implementation of integrated product and process development through integrated product teams represents a large-scale organizational change. This article draws from existing theory and research related to both large-scale change and team-based organization design to identify critical issues that must be explicitly managed to achieve the desired optimal outcomes of IPPD and IPTs. The langua...

Novel mixed antioxidants composed of antioxidant IPPD and lanthanum (La) complex were added as a filler to form natural rubber (NR) composites. By mechanical testing, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), a string of data, including the mechanical properties, the variation of internal groups and the thermal and...

† ‡ § This is white Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) embodies the simultaneous application of both system and quality engineering methods throughout iterative design processes. The use of IPPD results in the timeconscious, cost-saving development of engineering systems. A computing infrastructure called IMAGE is designed to implement IPPD from a decision-based perspective. IMAG...

Many different methods have been presented to solve unit commitment (UC) problem in literature with different advantages and disadvantages. The need for multiple runs, huge computational burden and time, and poor convergence are some of the disadvantages, where are especially considerable in large scale systems. In this paper, a new analytical and non-iterative method is presented to solve UC p...