Knowledge Based System Implementation for Lean Process in Low Volume Automotive Manufacturing (LVAM) with Reference to Process Manufacturing

A method of identifying suitable manufacturing system (Cellular) for automotive sector using Analytical Hierarchy Process

Manufacturing produces real wealth for any country and constitutes the back bone for the service sector. The objective of any organization is to earn profit. Usually the market fixes the selling price of the manufactured components. Unless there is focus on the manufacturing strategy of reducing manufacturing cost, it is very difficult to sustain in this ever competitive world. A suitable manuf...

Hierarchical Knowledge-Based Process Planning in Manufacturing

Artificial intelligence planning methods haven’t been used until rec ently to address the problem of computer-aided process planning (CAPP) in manufacturing in its entirety. They were simply not developed enough to tackle real-world problems of that complexity. In the paper we show that with so-called Hierarchical Task Networks, a recently matured general-purpose domainindependent planning meth...

Lean Manufacturing Implementation in Malaysian Automotive Industry: An Exploratory Study

This paper presents an exploratory study of lean manufacturing implementation in Malaysian automotive industries. A questionnaire survey is used to explore the extent of lean manufacturing implementation. This paper also examines the drivers and barriers that influence the implementation of lean manufacturing. The survey was performed on sixty Malaysian automotive components manufacturing firms...

Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process

Manufacturing Process Development for High-Volume, Low-Cost Vaccines

APRIL 2005 V accine development follows two major parallel paths. One path is from discovery research to clinical evaluation and proof of efficacy. The other is from experimental methods making small test quantities of a putative protective antigen to process development for manufacturing a useful product. The second path involves manufacturing process optimization, chemical engineering, and ap...