We present a brief observational, ‘ethnographic’, study of the Roughing Mill in a steel plant and use material from recorded activities to provide ‘illustrative vignettes’ ...
Karen Clarke, John A. Hughes, David Martin, Mark R...
In an industrial fabrication shop, such as pipe spool and steel fabrication, a product usually travels in the system in the form of raw materials or components of the product. Dur...
This paper describes the efforts required to convert conceptual designs and undefined processes for a proposed advanced steel processing shipyard facility into a discrete event si...
Daniel L. Williams, Daniel A. Finke, Deborah J. Me...
Concurrent engineering (CE) design demands the consideration of product life-cycle issues in the early product design stage. Among various life-cycle issues, this work concentrate...
In this short paper, we present the outline of a process for developing design products. The advantage of having a process for these types of projects is that it allows us to focu...