A heated debate continues over the need for trade-offs in operations strategy. Some researchers call for plants to focus on a single manufacturing capability and devote their limited resources accordingly, while others claim that advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) enables concurrent improvements in quality, cost, flexibility, and delivery. Yet there is little empirical evidence for or agai...

Hardware Trojans are an increasingly significant threat to the integrated circuit (IC) industry in both commercial and military fields due to the progress of globalization and the rapidly improving IC manufacturing technology in various countries. Because of global economic pressures, the development and fabrication of advanced ICs are often outsourced offshore in order to reduce cost. As a res...

Titanium (Ti) and its alloys may be processed via advanced powder manufacturing routes such as additive layer manufacturing (or 3D printing) or metal injection moulding. This field is receiving increased attention from various manufacturing sectors including the medical devices sector. It is possible that advanced manufacturing techniques could replace the machining or casting of metal alloys i...

Miller is a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analysis and a former member of the Senior Executive Service in the Department of Defense. He also is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Morris is the former director of mechanical engineering and manufacturing at Lockheed Marti...

The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently initiated the National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT). This is a testbed to demonstrate how machines, software, and people can be efficiently and effectively networked together to improve productivity and foster innovation at all levels of a manufacturing enterprise. "...

Historically, the hardwood lumber natural resource industry has been portrayed as a relatively low-tech industry. Most hardwood sawmills do not adequately consider the potential benefits of information systems enabled applications and solutions to enhance overall yield and efficiency. However, as computer-based technology is implemented across the entire manufacturing process, advanced optimiza...

drain current degradation in 0.35 m n-type lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors J. R. Lee, Jone F. Chen, Kuo-Ming Wu, C. M. Liu, and S. L. Hsu Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, L...

Jyh-Bin Ke is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His areas of research include queuing theory, reliability and stochastic modeling. His publications appeared in Computers and Operational Research, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Mathematical M...

Y. H. Li, T. Liu, Q. Du, J. Sun, Y. Xia, Z. Wang, W. Zhang, K. Wang, H. Zhu, and D. Wu Laboratory of Fiber Materials and Modern Textile, the Growing Base for State Key Laboratory, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao 266071, China College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao 266071, China Key Laboratory for Advanced Manufacturing by Material P...