It has always been known that facilities and processes involved in pharmaceutical production impact significantly on the quality of the products. The processes include raw material and equipment inspections as well as in-process controls. Process controls are mandatory in good manufacturing practice (GMP). The purpose is to monitor the on-line and off-line performance of the manufacturing proce...

The cable harness manufacturing industry has been growing in a fast pace during the recent years in India. Cable harnesses are used to link together all the electrical components scattered throughout any electrical equipment. Cable harness manufacturing involves a series of operations which are to be carried out in a proper sequence to make a good quality harness. In real time scenario, high vo...

Present situation in the industrial manufacture has brought new trends in the kind of flexibility and intelligence. That means new generation of intelligent manufacturing systems. New generation of clamping fixtures is represented by group of clamping fixtures which can be used in intelligent manufacturing systems. Important effect, which brings manufacturing times shortening, can be realized b...

Process Analytical Technology (PAT) promise to deliver a bigger, brighter future in terms of encouraging “the voluntary development and implementation of innovative pharmaceutical development, manufacturing and quality assurance” while ensuring patient safety and increasing profitability for the life sciences industry. No matter how you slice it, reducing raw material and batch losses, preventi...

Detection of faults is a continuing need in all manufacturing processes. This need is more pronounced in new manufacturing processes where continual product improvement is desired. In this paper, a systematic approach is developed for addressing this need. Contemporary experimental and surface analysis techniques provide a basis for incrementally diagnosing the fault mechanisms leading to surfa...

Resin Transfer Molding, as a method for the manufacture of advanced ber reinforced composite materials, is attractive because it ooers the possibility of lower manufacturing costs and more complex shapes than the traditional manufacturing methods. A major issue in this new manufacturing process is the elimination of void spaces in the resin ll operation, so that products with high quality are m...

ABSTRACT Six Sigma is a widely used moniker to represent a set of design and manufacturing techniques, the aggregate of which should effectively improve quality and lower cost. Six Sigma implies that six standard deviations of performance should be maintained between the performance mean and the closest specification limit. When multiple performance attributes must be satisfied, aggregation tec...

Companies must develop and maintain a high degree of coherence among competitive priorities, order-winning criteria, and improvement activities due to the competitive market and customer pressures. This paper presents findings of an empirical survey on manufacturing strategies implementation in new industrialized countries (NICs). Data were obtained from 68 and 54 automotive manufacturing compa...

Rapid prototyping (RP) process is inherently performed by layered manufacturing. The surface finish of the RP part is inevitably excessively rough. In this study, aluminum filled epoxy resin is used as a filler to improve surface quality of wax injection tool fabricated by fused deposition modeling. The average surface roughness of wax patterns can be drastically reduced from 1710 μm to 276 μm....

One of the projects in the Machine Learning Department a t GTE Laboratories involves studying quality control of a fluorescent bulb manufacturing line. All manufacturing processes are subject to incompletely understood changes due t o variations in raw materials, environmental factors such as weather, wearing and aging of the machinery, and changes in operators. This can result in iiiarked vari...