The most advanced cement manufacturing technology does not, on its own, guarantee profitable operations. The cement manufacturing operation for maximum cost efficiency not only requires the advanced technological design but also sound operational practices. Operational Audit is an effective way for enhancing the productivity and minimising energy consumption. The objectives of a comprehensive o...

The RoboCrane is a cable driven, multi-purpose manipulator based on the Stewart Platform Parallel Link Manipulator. It provides six degree-of-freedom load control via teleoperative, graphic off-line programming, and hybrid control modes. Originally, the RoboCrane was developed under a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) contract to stabilize loads on conventional cranes. Currently,...

Using survey data, this research identified the relationship between technology orientation (manufacturing flexibility and advance manufacturing technology), and customer orientation (customer focus and customer satisfaction) to development of manufacturing strategy. This framework is then tested on a sample of 52 firms in plastics injection industry, Taipei County, Taiwan. The results show sig...

Technological advancement in the manufacturing system in current scenario is inevitable due to today’s customer-driven and volatile nature of the market. Implementation of agent technology in a manufacturing system increases flexibility which handles uncertainty generated due to advance technology. Therefore, in this paper, the critical drivers affecting implementation of agent technology are i...

MIT Makes the World’s Most Precise Ruler A team of MIT students, scientists and engineers has developed the world’s fastest and most precise tool for patterning large gratings. This new tool, called the Nanoruler, is capable of fabricating gratings 10-1000 times faster and more precisely than previous methods. This revolutionary technology will enable breakthroughs in many areas including semic...

Lithography as developed for IC device fabrication is a high volume high accuracy patterning technology with strong 2 dimensional (2D) characteristics. This 2D nature makes it a challenge to integrate this technology in a 3 dimensional (3D) manufacturing environment. This article addresses the performance of a waferstepper (ASML PAS5000) in several 3D processes ranging form waferbonding and thi...

The recent strategy of the Government of China has been to attract foreign direct investment in order to obtain foreign technology and capital. There is an official preference for advanced technology, and for its rapid diffusion to domestic firms. This approach underpins the joint-venture legislation applicable to most parts of the manufacturing sector. Using four case studies of foreign affili...

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...

Companies are moving towards quickly providing better customer-centric products and services improve market share and market size with continuously growing revenue. As such, the effective collaboration among customers, developers, suppliers, and manufacturers throughout the entire product lifecycle is becoming much more important for the most advanced competitiveness. To address this need, a fr...