Current research by the developers of rapid prototyping systems is generally focused on improvements in cost, speed and materials to create truly economic and practical economic r...
As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environmen...
Testing complex manufacturing systems, such as an ASML [1] lithographic machine, takes up to 45% of the total development time of a system. The problem of which tests must be execu...
R. Boumen, I. S. M. de Jong, J. W. H. Vermunt, J. ...
Intelligent agents provide a means to integrate various manufacturing software applications. The agents are typically executed in a computer-based collaborative environment, refer...
The application of AI planning techniques to manufacturing systems is being widely deployed for all the tasks involved in the process, from product design to production planning an...
: The research area “Virtual Manufacturing” can be defined as an integrated manufacturing environment which can enhance one or several levels of decision and control in manufac...
Data mining methods can be used for discovering interesting patterns in manufacturing databases. These patterns can be used to improve manufacturing processes. However, data accum...
: In the manufacturing context, there have been numerous efforts to use modeling and simulation tools and techniques to improve manufacturing efficiency over the last four decades....
FACTOR/AIM (AIM) is a simulation system designed specifically for use in manufacturing decision support. AIM has been successfully applied to engineering design, scheduling, and p...
This paper discusses how simulation is used to design new manufacturing systems and to improve the performance of existing ones. Topics to be discussed include: manufacturing issu...