Cost Oriented Maintenance Management Systems for Manufacturing Processes.

Maintenance Management and Modeling in Modern Manufacturing Systems

Condition Based Maintenance for Two-Component Systems with Reliability and Cost Considerations

This paper studies a maintenance policy for a system composed of two components, which are subject to continuous deterioration and consequently stochastic failure. The failure of each component results in the failure of the system. The components are inspected periodically and their deterioration degrees are monitored. The components can be maintained using different maintenance actions (repair...

Human oriented and technology oriented manufacturing systems

Three approaches to development of new manufacturing systems are discussed. The technology oriented approach is exemplified through Computer-IntegratedManufacturing (CIM). A human oriented approach is also described. The utmost alternative is called Human-Integrated-Manufacturing (HIM). A third, combined, approach is called Computer-Human-Integrated-Manufacturing (CHIM). Swedish manufacturers a...

Dimensional Quality Oriented Reliability Modeling for Complex Manufacturing Processes

The stability of process is certainly one of the most important aspects to fulfill the task. Now, it is still a challenge to put forward a model to deal with the stability of manufacturing process mathematically. Aiming at solving the problem, this paper discusses the issues by the notion of manufacturing process reliability and its sensitivity. Based on state space model, the process performan...

Manufacturing Cost Simulations for Low Cost RFID systems

In a previous Auto-ID publication, “Towards a 5¢ Tag” [1], we speculated on manufacturing and system methods to approach the elusive goal of a 5¢ Radio Frequency Identification (or RFID) tag. We extend our cost analysis in this paper and simulate manufacturing and assembly processes to examine the feasibility of the 5¢ tag. We do so assuming that large volumes are being manufactured achieving w...