It is a trend to implement mass customization (MC) to meet customer demands and win the global competition. With mass customization, products can be produced with low cost, high quality, and in time as mass production. To implement MC, today’s manufacturing process should be reengineered. However, it is believed that manufacturing process reengineering (MPR) is a highly risk job. A manufacturin...

Integrated circuits (ICs) are at the heart of modern electronics, which rely heavily on the state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing technology. The key to pushing forward semiconductor technology is IC feature-size miniaturization. However, this brings ever-increasing design complexities and manufacturing challenges to the $350 billion semiconductor industry. The manufacturing of two-dimen...

The dispersion unshifted optical fiber is in favor of communications construction project, because of its mature manufacturing technique, low loss, large bandwidth, transmission distance, low engineering cost, the related derivative products, easy realization. In order to pursue a better communication quality, dispersion control has become an important index of engineering. In this paper, based...

Simulation technology has been demonstrated to be an effective tool for reducing costs, improving quality, and shortening the time-to-market for manufactured goods in the manufacturing industry. But, there are a number of technical and economic barriers that hinder the use of this technology in the manufacturing industry. The cost of developing, implementing, and using simulation technology is ...

The paper presents general information on LTCC materials, manufacturing processes and properties of fired modules. A Multichip Module package has been the main application of Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic (LTCC) technology. Recently, this technology is also used for production of sensors, actuators and microsystems. The research and development on the LTCC sensors and microsystems carried out...

During the last decade, the development in metallic material additive manufacturing (formerly also known as Rapid Manufacturing, RM or Rapid Tooling, RT) has brought this technology from niche applications and short run tooling to be a competitive method capable of producing complex geometries in industrial grade materials, such as for example injection moulding tool inserts with integrated con...

The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Engineering (CAME) program is developing a number of integrated software toolkits for design, manufacturing engineering, and production operations [1]. One of these toolkits is the Manufacturing Engineering ToolKit (METK) [2]. The goals of the METK project are 1) to develop generic interface specifications, data structures, information models, and data validatio...

Internet of Things (IoT) are being adopted for industrial and manufacturing applications such as manufacturing automation, remote machine diagnostics, prognostic health management of industrial machines and supply chain management. CloudBased Manufacturing is a recent on-demand model of manufacturing that is leveraging IoT technologies. While Cloud-Based Manufacturing enables on-demand access t...

We use mean-variance analysis to demonstrate the importance of a hitherto neglected benefit of enticing MNEs to locate in small and medium-sized countries. During the 25 years from 1974 to 1999, over 1000 foreign MNEs have located in Ireland, and they have raised their share of all manufacturing jobs in the country from one-third to one-half. The foreign MNEs tend to operate in high-technology ...