This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of an important, rapidly emerging, manufacturing technology that is alternatively called additive manufacturing (AM), direct digital manufacturing, free form fabrication, or 3D printing, etc. A broad contextual overview of metallic AM is provided. AM has the potential to revolutionize the global parts manufacturing and logistics landscape. It enables dist...

Simulation technology is underutilized by the manufacturing industry. Standard data interfaces, among simulation modules or between simulation and other software applications, could make information sharing effective and efficient, and hence promote utilization of simulators. An information model that represents machine shop data and facilitates data sharing among the manufacturing execution sy...

OBJECTIVES A system for retrospective occupational exposure assessment combining the efficiency of a job exposure matrix (JEM) and the precision of a subsequent individual expert exposure assessment (IEEA) was developed. All steps of the exposure assessment were performed by an interdisciplinary expert panel in the context of a case-control study on male germ cell cancer nested in the car manuf...

Nowadays, manufacturing organisations face increasing pressures from the frequent change in product type, continuous demand fluctuation and unexpected change in customer requirements. In order to survive in the turbulent environment, manufacturing organisations must become flexible and responsive to these dynamic changes in the business environment. This paper presents a hierarchical agent bidd...

In the 80’s, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) concept was adopted as a solution to all the problems in manufacturing. However, it was soon realized that the evolving demands for manufacturing systems were not handled by CIM. New alternatives rise, and especially Agent-Based Manufacturing and Holonic Manufacturing Systems, for cooping with today’s manufacturing systems requirements. From ...

Dispersed manufacturing achieves the greatest cumulative competitive advantage by dissecting a supply chain and assigning each process to an optimal location. Dispersed manufacturing has been an integral part of global manufacturing in China. This paper presents a bi-objective model for the supply chain design of dispersed manufacturing in the context of rising business operating costs in coast...

Process planning plays an important role for ensuring machining quality, reducing production cost, and shortening leading time. Since there are many uncertainty factors for manufacturing resources in a changing manufacturing environment, especially for small batch manufacturing of large scale parts requiring long process planning time, manufacturing companies are facing significant challenges o...

Role/Viewpoint of panelist or organization The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) is a non-profit organization comprised of manufacturing practitioners, suppliers and technology companies; manufacturing consortia; universities; government agencies, laboratories and regional consortia committed to improving U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through the comprehensive adoption of Sma...

236 ICMS: A Cloud-Based System for Production Management Xi Vincent Wang, Lihui Wang, and Mohammad Givehchi OS 1001 1.1 1 Cloud-Based Manufacturing I 163 Protecting Intellectual Property in a Cloud Manufacturing Environment: Requirements and Strategies Yuqian Lu and Xun Xu OS 1001 1.1 2 Cloud-Based Manufacturing I 172 Integrate Product Planning Process of OKP Companies in the Cloud Manufacturin...

This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other manufacturing software applications, and with manufacturing data repositories. Other manufacturing software applications include, but are not limited to systems used to: 1) design products, 2) specify processes, 3) engineer manufacturing sy...