Now days, internal combustion engines are used in most of the automobiles and mechanical machineries. The piston is a part without which no internal combustion engine can work i.e., piston plays a vital role in almost all types of vehicles. So, the reliability of piston manufacturing system is most essential for the proper functioning of vehicles. In this paper, fault tree method is used to ana...

Piston plays a vital role in almost all types of vehicles. The present study discusses the behavioral study of a piston manufacturing plant. Manufacturing plants are complex repairable systems and therefore, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of a piston manufacturing plant using stochastic models. The stochastic model is an efficient performance evaluator for repairable systems. In...

Development of information technology industry provided great possibilities in the area of integration of diff erent CAx systems, such as CAD, CAM, CAE and others. In order to successfully link systems of automated-design (or Computer Aided Design CAD) with automated manufacturing systems (or Computer Aided Manufacturing – CAM), automation of manufacturing process planning is needed, i.e. CAPP ...

In the literature, several numerical methods are proposed for solvingnth-order fuzzy linear differential equations. However, till now there areonly two analytical methods for the same. In this paper, the fuzzy Kolmogorov'sdifferential equations, obtained with the help of fuzzy Markov modelof piston manufacturing system, are solved by one of these analytical methodsand illustrated that the obtai...

A new energy-saving mechanical system with automatically controlled air valves has been proposed by investigator and the preliminary model setup has been tested. The testing results indicated the proper function of this energy-saving mechanical system. This mechanical system model has been simulated and analyzed by the computational aided engineering solution. The major advantages of this mecha...

This research deals with the development of Autonomous Distributed Manufacturing Systems (ADiMS) Concept and an example of its application in the casting industry. ADiMS is a manufacturing system concept developed to increase the flexibility of the system. In ADiMS, each of the manufacturing system elements (holon) had been modelled as an intelligent element with the result that each element ha...

Due to their high relative cost, solar-electric energy systems have yet to be exploited on a widespread basis. It is believed in the energy community that a technology similar to photovoltaics, but offered at about $1/W, would lead to widespread deployment at residential and commercial sites. This paper addresses the feasibility study of a low-cost solar-thermal electricity generation technolog...

During the design of new technical systems, their manufacturing tolerances (i.e. system parameter uncertainties) should be determined basically by working requirements of the system and technological possibilities of the manufacturers. Therefore the determination of manufacturing tolerances can be a very important and difficult task. It is possible that system output parameter values are inadeq...