TASE
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
2011
IEEE
—This paper proposes a general scheduling model that extends job-shop scheduling models to incorporate important features of real manufacturing systems. More precisely, each oper...
TSMC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
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...
EOR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Group Technology (GT) is a useful way of increasing the productivity for manufacturing high quality products and improving the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Cell formation...
ENGL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Strong competition on the global automotive market is forcing car manufacturers rethink their strategic approach to manufacturing. In order to be competitive, companies need to man...
CDC
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper is a response to requests from several respected colleagues in academia for a careful writeup of the classical time-optimal control based hybrid controllers that we have...
WSC
1997
13 years 8 months ago
1997
This paper presents an investigation of three simulation packages: VS7, SIMAN/CINEMA IV, and SIMFACTORY II.5. These packages were investigated with regard to their capabilities of...
WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
ICEIS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...
AC
2003
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. There exists ample literature on Petri nets and its potential in the modelling, analysis, synthesis and implementation of systems in the manufacturing applications domain...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Quickly adapting the manufacturing system to the production of new or modified products is critical for manufacturers in order to stay competitive. For flexible manufacturing...