Plant location selection invariably has a significant impact on the performance of many companies or manufacturing systems. In this paper, a novel methodology is structured to solve this problem. The two decision making methods, namely AHP and VIKOR, are integrated in order to make the best use of information available, either implicitly or explicitly. In addition, the Delphi method is utilized...

Elastomeric liners are commonly worn between the prosthetic socket and limb. A number of improvements to state art liner technology required address outstanding problems. that conforms residuum more accurately, may improve skin health at stump-socket interface. Previous work has shown for effective thermal management environment, an active heat removal system is required, yet this not available...

Process planning determines how to produce the designed products using available manufacturing resources economically; thus the manufacturing resources perform a major part in the field of process planning. Most modeling approaches of the manufacturing resources, however, have been studied to cope with production planning and control problems, or to unleash the under-utilized resource flexibili...

conclusions metacarpal neck fractures are a common injury in young and active patients that results in substantial missed time from work. while the surgical indications are well-described, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment modality because of high complication rates. dorsal plating has higher complication rates than closed reduction and percutaneous pinning, but is necessary in com...

the fuzzy centriod method. Genetic algorithms (GA). since first introduced by Holland [I] in early 1970s. was applied on optimization problems and showed significant performance. However, it was seldom mentioned in manufacturing literature, especially in optimizing resources allocation problems and line balancing problems. This paper is concerned with applying the Genetic Algorithms technique, ...

vacuum assisted resin transfer molding, as a sub-branch of rtm is a method of manufacturing composite specimens. considering the industrial development of this method, different modified techniques are designed to improve its performance. among these techniques, using a half flexible mold is regarded as an important method. in this work, dominant equations of resin flow through the mold in pola...