—The manipulation of flexible and limp sheet materials is a common requirement in many industrial manufacturing processes, however automation of even simple tasks involving these...
Today's business climate for manufacturers requires low inventory, quick response systems that turn out a wide variety of products. Since many companies are reaching physical...
Using discrete-event simulation models, a study was conducted to evaluate the current production practices of a high-volume semiconductor back-end operation. The overall goal was ...
Joerg Domaschke, Steven Brown, Jennifer Robinson, ...
This paper describes a web-based system that integrates knowledge management and decision-making features to enable short-term communities of practice develop manufacturing strate...
Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Emmanuel Adamides, Christi...
This paper presents the development and simulation of a novel Genetic Algorithm (GA) based methodology applied to optimal tuning of a fuzzy dispatching system for a fleet of autom...