Quality inspection planning within a multistage manufacturing process based on the added value criterion

Flexible Manufacturing Process Planning based on the Multi-agent Technology

Flexible manufacturing systems working in highly dynamic modern markets requires innovative concepts towards flexible management, production scheduling and planning. The agent-based technology provides a desired flexibility, supports a short reaction time and can underlie the required planning mechanismes. Moreover it does not require any centralized elements allowing a distributed implementati...

Integrating Activity-based Costing and Economic Value Added in Manufacturing

* Earlier version presented at ASEM 98. Accepted to Engineering Management Journal. Abstract This article presents a cost and performance measurement system that integrates activity-based costing (ABC) with the economic value added financial performance measure. This proposed ABC-and-EVA system is a management support tool for managing cost and capital. The integrated ABC-and-EVA system include...

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...

The Value of Inspection Galleries

the impact of portfolio assessment on iranian efl students essay writing: a process-oriented approach

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...