This paper presents the development of an Internet server controller based intelligent maintenance system for products. It also discusses on how to develop products and manufacturing systems using Internet-based intelligent technologies and how to ensure the product quality, coordinate the activities, reduce costs and change maintenance practice from breakdown reaction to breakdown prevention. ...

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is the one, which can be changed or adapted quickly to manufacture different components or products at different volumes of product. Flexible manufacturing system includes – a set of flexible machines, an automatic transport system and a sophisticated database with decision support system, to decide at each instant what is to be done on which machine. The obj...

| This article describes an analog neuron and synapse cell that each consist of only one Single Electron Tunneling (SET) Transistor. Simulation results show that using the Random Weight Changing Learning algorithm, a small neural network with these devices can learn the XOR function. The periodic transfer function and the random ooset charges of the transistor can successfully be dealt with by ...

This paper presents a method to find the optimal production, repair/replacement and preventive maintenance policies for a degraded manufacturing system. The system is subject to random machine failures and repairs. The status of the system is deemed to degrade with repair activities. When a failure occurs, the machine is either repaired or replaced, and a replacement action renews the machine, ...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, manufacturers have to offer a great variety of products on a high quality level, in the least amount of time for an acceptable price. Therefore machine maintenance and in general, implementing an appropriate maintenance strategy has become increasingly important for manufacturing companies to accomplish these requirements. Total productive mai...

In this paper, we focus on outsourcing activities optimization problem in single period setting. In some situations, capacity planning or outsourcing is a one-time event and can be modeled as a single period problem. The aim of this research is to balance the trade-off between two echelons of a supply chain consisting of a single outsourcer and a single subcontractor. Each part is composed of a...