The GNOSIS project in the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems international research program is concerned with the use of advanced information technology for knowledge systematization to support the complex intellectual and managerial processes involved in the manufacturing life cycle. It has developed technologies to coordinate distributed manufacturing enterprises, and these technologies have a...

Strategic technology planning is a core competency of companies using technological capabilities for competitive advantage. It is also a competency with which many large companies struggle due to the cross-functional knowledge that needs to be shared, the varying perspectives that must to be aligned, the complicated network of dependencies that need to be understood and the high-degree of uncer...

This study examines the factors influencing a firm’s decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about whether technology use is associated with an increase or a decrease in workers’ skills. Based on the d...

This paper revolves around the impact of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies in Indian Manufacturing industries. Statistics inculcates that a number of industries subsists, which are using different forms of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT). “Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)” is a generic term, depicting an assembly of manufacturing technologies, which combines both scope and ...

E-intelligence for integrated product design, manufacturing and service is becoming the core of 21st century advanced manufacturing technology. This paper presents the current efforts at the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) to implement an Intemet-based Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) facility for the development of new manufacturing processes. The facility, termed The Centre f...

Shift in Health Care of This Century Rachel Haddock, MS, GlaxoSmithKline; Sheng Lin-Gibson, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Nadya Lumelsky, PhD, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health; Richard McFarland, PhD, MD, Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute; Krishnendu Roy, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Krishanu Saha, ...

Manufacturing is an important factor in national economic welfare and information technology is increasingly seen as a vital instrument in manufacturing performance. Manufacturing is one area where a vision of extensive coordination through computerization has been articulated. This vision, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), is usually advanced as a next stage for improving manufacturing ...

Unchained from the confines of controller limitations, the industrial application of parallel kinematic machines in manufacturing is beginning to emerge. The launch of commercially available hexapod machine tools at the 1994 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago represented the first radical departure in machine tool design since the introduction of numerical controls. The para...