Manufacturing Techniques for Rolled Clad Products

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Techniques for cash management in scheduling manufacturing operations

The objective in traditional scheduling is usually time based. Minimizing the makespan, total flow times, total tardi costs, etc. are instances of these objectives. In manufacturing, processing each job entails a cost paying and price receiving. Thus, the objective should include some notion of managing the flow of cash. We have defined two new objectives: maximization of average and minimum av...

The Use of Vanadium in Flat Rolled Products

Figure 1, compiled from data in the US Geological Survey indicates that, in 2004, 94% of vanadium used was consumed by the steel industry and 6% by all other uses. Figures 2 and 3 show data on steel production and vanadium consumption over a number of past years. Figure 2 indicates that in 2004 steel production reached a record level of 1.036 billon tonnes, driven largely by increases in steel ...

Purification Techniques for Biological Products

The purification of a biological product, e.g. an antibiotic, a vitamin, or a recombinant protein, from fermentation broth or cell culture supernatant is an important part of biotechnological manufacturing. Downstream recovery represents a large part of the product cost and therefore efficient and robust separation techniques are essential for the production of biological products. Recovering a...

Products-manufacturing systems Co-platforming

A new Co-platforming methodology is introduced for mapping product features platform and corresponding manufacturing system machines platform. A cluster of platform and non-platform system machines are derived using matrix formulation and manipulation. The objective of Coplatforming is to establish the mapping between platforms of products and manufacturing machines for use in synthesizing syst...