If the system needs to perform multiple, distinctly different functions at different times (multi-capability), and/or needs to evolve in its form/function over time (evolution), and/or needs to remain functional, despite a few failures or changing external conditions (survivability), then reconfigurability is often required. For Planetary Surface Vehicles (PSV) that will be involved in future m...

Remotely sensing recent growth, herbivory, or disturbance of herbaceous and woody vegetation in dryland ecosystems requires high spatial resolution and multi-temporal depth. Three dimensional (3D) remote sensing technologies like lidar, and techniques like structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry, each have strengths and weaknesses at detecting vegetation volume and extent, given the instrume...

In production systems of automobile manufacturers multi-variant products are assembled on paced mixed-model assembly lines, which have to be supplied by a lean in-house logistic with containers of different sizes, alternative supply policies and different number of parts. The assignment of operations to workplaces within the assembly line balancing problem and the assignment of containers to su...

This paper presents a summary of the results from the simulation of a given two-stages production system which uses JIT. The system consists of an assembly line with two automated assembly cells and two assembly stock points and one manufacturing cell with three manufacturing stock points for storing reserved parts and one receiving stock. Carts with fixed capacity are used for handling the par...

If the system needs to perform multiple, distinctly different functions at different times (multi-capability), and/or needs to evolve in its form/function over time (evolution), and/or needs to remain functional, despite a few failures or changing external conditions (survivability), then reconfigurability is often required. For Planetary Surface Vehicles (PSV) that will be involved in future m...

| Surface Mount Technology (SMT) is a robust methodology that has been widely used in the past decade to produce circuit boards. Analyses of the SMT assembly line have shown that the automated placement machine is often the bottleneck, regardless of the arrangement of these machines (parallel or sequential) in the assembly line. Improving and automating the placement machine is a key issue for ...

This paper presents a nonlinear mixed-integer programming model to minimize the stoppage cost of mixed-model assembly lines. Nowadays, most manufacturing firms employ this type of line due to the increasing varieties of products in their attempts to quickly respond to diversified customer demands. Advancement of new technologies, competitiveness, diversification of products, and large customer ...

The ANTARES Collaboration is building a neutrino telescope 2400 m below the Mediterranean sea close to the Southern French coast. The site is already linked to the shore station by a 40 km-long electro-optical cable (EOC) which transmits power and data. A prototype line and an instrumentation line for monitoring environmental parameters have been successfully deployed and connected to the EOC v...