Since design is a process in which designers use various kinds of knowledge and it is an open-ended problem, it is difficult to prepare all necessary knowledge before design. Also...
As manufacturers require closer and closer links to geographically more diverse suppliers in order remain competitive, virtual teamworking is beginning to look attractive. However...
Advanced manufacturing environments nowadays involve a number of cooperating heterogeneous nodes, where each node supports a distinct activity, and their joint efforts and informa...
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ammar Benabdelkader, Louis O....
: In an ideal scenario of intelligent machine tools [18] the human mechanist was almost replaced by the controller. During the last decade many efforts have been made to get closer...
: In most cases in intelligent manufacturing applications the communication functions depend on the capabilities of the intelligent tool (e.g. expert system). Three different types...