Increasing complexity and interdependency in manufacturing enterprises require an agile manufacturing paradigm. This paper considers a dynamic control approach for linking manufacturing strategy with market strategy through a reconfigurable manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system to support agility in this context. A comprehensive MPC model capable of adopting different MPC strategies t...

This paper introduces a prototype system, SketchingMetal, that enables individuals with no manufacturing expertise to quickly design a restricted domain of precise, manufacturable, three-dimensional geometric models. Unlike previous systems that generate plastic prototypes from more general geometric models, models created with SketchingMetal can be manufactured automatically as functional mach...

The global manufacturing development faces the new challenges including waste of resources, short delivery time, labor cost increase, short of labor, etc.. As a result, the overall industry environment of plastic materials manufacturing turns to focus on automatic production that enables manufacturing industry entering into the next phase so that production efficiency, man-made errors, and labo...

Today most modern manufacturing systems contain complex units, which are often difficult to model correctly. Therefore, it is desirable for simulation packages used in manufacturing to be flexible, and provide comprehensible modules. This research work presents a methodology of modelling and simulation of a manufacturing system using Arena software simulation tool, in order to deal efficiently ...

In recent years, CAD/CAM has been extensively applied in global machinery with the rapid development of computer technologies. Due to the technical application of CAD/CAM in manufacturing industry, enterprises have gradually changed their traditional approaches to design and manufacture products. Meanwhile, qualitative changes begin to occur to the production process and control pattern. Hence,...

A new additive manufacturing technology for industrial mass production of footwear, apparel and accessories branded as “Haptic” will be introduced. Applying traditional non-digital screen printing technology for additive manufacturing, a totally new approach of footwear manufacturing was implemented successfully in 2015 at Huafeng Textile Group in China. Production was scaled up from zero to 50...

The choice of the machine tools is one of the considerations of manufacturing companies which depend primarily on machining process, by deciding how a finished product will be manufactured. The activity of tools choice is established in geometry of machining features, but it also has a direct impact on workability and execution of machine-tool. We propose in this paper an integration module of ...

The angular error of indexing table on machine tool is measured using new developed measuring device. The measuring techniques, which have been reviewed in this paper, are currently available in manufacturing engineering to calibrate the angle measurement. The new developed measuring device using 6 points kinematic concept and employing ball and vee grooves is used to calibrate angle errors of ...

This paper presents an automatic reliability-aware system-level design methodology to tolerate hardware defects caused by manufacturing tolerances as well as destructive agents and aging processes at the places of activity of the system components. This is achieved by (1) integrating the capability of a redundant placement of software tasks in an automatic design process to cope with the hardwa...