Introduction The National Advanced Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT) program was conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 1996 to 2000. The NAMT was initiated by the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) to enable and accelerate the development of standards related to the interoperability of manufacturing systems and to aid in the injection of new technologies...

Technology selection is an important part of management of technology. Recently Karsak and Ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for selection of the best Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) candidates based on a number of attributes. However, Amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing rapid changes because of the rapid growth of advanced technologies in information systems and networks, which allow for collaboration around the world. This combination of the latest information technologies and advanced manufacturing networks has led to the growth of a new manufacturing model known as Cloud Manufacturing. Because Cloud Manufac...

Agent-based technology has been taken as an important approach for developing advanced manufacturing systems. Learning is one of the key techniques for implementing such systems. This paper proposes some learning issues in agent-based manufacturing systems for further discussion in the working group. As examples, the paper describes two implemented learning mechanisms and presents some experime...

The rapid diffusion of technology and manufacturing processes to less developed nations has been one of the most significant devel­ opments in the interaction between advanced and less developed countries in recent years. Industries that were almost exclusively concentrated in the most advanced nations less than three decades ago are now commonplace in many developing countries. Thus, while tec...

Japan is one of the most advanced countries in manufacturing technology, and lasers have played an important role in the advancement of manufacturing technology in a variety of industrial fields. The contribution of laser materials processing to Japanese industry is significant for both macroprocessing and microprocessing. The present paper describes the recent trend and topics of industrial ap...

In this general equilibrium framework, the transportation sector is modeled as a distinct sector with increasing returns. A more advanced technology has a higher fixed cost but a lower marginal cost of production. Even with both manufacturing firms and transportation firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose technologies optimally, the model is tractable and results are derived analy...

This research reports the findings of a exploratory survey on Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) administered in Indian automobile companies. The objective of the survey is to assess the status of advanced manufacturing technologies, Identify advanced manufacturing technologies relevant to Indian automobile sector companies, Identify competitive priorities, assess the degree of investmen...