Developing a hierarchical decomposition methodology to increase manufacturing process and equipment health awareness

A Process Control Methodology Applied to Manufacturing GaAs MMIC ’ s

A methodology for guiding process-driven manufacturing organizations in instituting process control on a facility-wide basis is proposed. The methodology begins with a definition of the customer’s expectations and of the manufacturing process used to meet these expectations. The output, of a given process or subprocess must reach four progressive levels of control. When the output can be reliab...

Transferring process equipment innovations from user-innovators to equipment manufacturing firms

Product users are not usually thought of as product innovators. We have found, however, that 67% of the significant process equipment innovations in the two fields of semiconductor manufacture and electronic subassembly manufacture were in fact developed by equipment users rather than equipment manufacturers. Our analysis of the process by which these user innovations are transferred t o the fi...

Fuzzy Sets and Analytical Hierarchical Process for Manufacturing Process Choice

The aim of this chapter is to investigate the decision process of manufacturing systems (MSs) under uncertain conditions. The decision process needs a systematic approach to structure the system requirements and highlight the management preferences while considering vague criteria. In order to establish a suitable empirical approach for the decision process compatible with the current/future re...

A methodology to select construction equipment

Planning in the construction industry, as is well known plays an important part in the successful outcome of a project. How a task has to be dealt with and with which tools is part of the engineers work load and it is in their responsibility to assure that this planned work is carried out on time and within its constraints. Construction equipment is among these tools that have to be carefully c...

Hierarchical decomposition and simulation of manufacturing cells using Ada