The article addresses the issues of Supply Chain (SC) performance measurement the process of qualifying the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain. The aim of this study is to create a supply chain measurement framework for manufacturing industry. The research is based on a review of the current understanding of supply chain management and literature related to supply chain performanc...

Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing together with PAT (Process Analytical Technology) provides a suitable platform for automatic control of the end product quality as desired by QbD (quality by design)-based efficient manufacturing. The precise control of the quality of the pharmaceutical product requires corrective actions in the process/raw material variability before product quality can ...

Welding is one of the most widely used permanent joining technologies in assembly. As with other manufacturing processes, manufacturing feasibility and efficiency of weld components should be considered early in the part design stages to avoid costly redesign and delay. While there have been considerable research interests in weldability assessment and predictive modeling of welding distortion,...

Manufacturing products with multiple quality characteristics is always one of the main concerns for an advanced manufacturing system. To assure product quality, finite automatic inspection systems should be available and employed. Inspection planning to allocate inspection stations should then be performed to manage limited inspection resources. Since product variety in batch production or job ...

Recent developments in sensing and computer technology have resulted in most manufacturing processes becoming a data-rich environment. A cycle-based signal refers to an analog or digital signal that is obtained during each repetition of an operation cycle in a manufacturing process. It is a very important class of in-process sensing signals for manufacturing processes because it contains extens...

A mechanism to control and manage the information flow among all of the manufacturing application systems, in order to form an integrated manufacturing system, is proposed in this paper. The goal is to achieve a fully integrated manufacturing management system. The INformation System for Integrated Manufacturing (INSIM) reflects a design methodology to build a knowledge base to serve as the inf...