In the future, manufacturing will be driven by increased competition, sophisticated customer demands and rapid advances in technology. It is therefore necessary to de®ne methodologies for manufacturing that are capable of identifying the driving forces of change and coping with the resultant changes. In this paper, a survey has identi®ed the present trends in manufacturing. Some manufacturing p...

while the application of optical and photonic technologies in the communications, computing, medicine and industrial manufacturing has been growing rapidly, the miniaturization of these technologies has been slow due to the limitation on the diffraction. however, the developments of nanoscale components and guiding methods are continuing with a rapid pace. since waveguiding is a fundamental iss...

As the complexity of electronic systems grows, the traditional design practice, a sequential process, is replaced by concurrent design methodologies. A major advantage of concurrent design is that the feedback from software and manufacturing engineers can be easily incorporated into the design. The implementation of concurrent engineering methodologies is greatly facilitated by employing the la...

A local and temporal separated manufacturing becomes possible, which can enhance the economic efficiency of the production. Complex products such as spacecraft, large CNC Machine, large compressor face challenges in their development process. The cloud manufacturing which is based on the development of cloud computing and Internet of Things system makes the collaborative manufacturing process o...

Solid Freeform Fabrication and Shape Deposition are rapid manufacturing processes which build parts by incremental material deposition and fusion of cross-sectional layers. In this paper, several thermal deposition processes are described for directly fabricating prototype metal shapes using robotically manipulated material deposition systems. A robotic palletizing/part transfer system is also ...

In order to reduce the time and the costs of the products development in the sand casting process, the SMC Colombier Fontaine company has carried out a study based on a tooling manufacturing with a new rapid prototyping process. This evolution allowed the adequacy of the geometry used for the simulation to the tooling employed physically in the production. This allowed a reduction of the wall t...

South Korea achieved very rapid economic development between the 1960s and 1990s, with a focus on manufacturing, during which time primary industry strikingly dwindled. Recently, Korea’s economy has begun to change from one that is manufacturing based to an economy that is essentially service based. In the last 20 years, small businesses have greatly increased in number and the proportions of w...

This paper explains the importance of cost-effective volume scalability of existing manufacturing systems, which enables enterprises to meet market demand in a timely manner. The system must be designed at the outset for future scalability in order to enable its rapid and cost-effective volume expansion, exactly when needed. Accordingly, this paper offers a set of principles to guide manufactur...

This paper describes how a link between Virtual Reality and Rapid Prototyping was established at Clemson to enhance the designer’s understanding of manufacturing issues. It surveys the literature in the area of virtual reality and discusses some of the issues of translating an STL model into the appropriate format for Virtual Reality. The paper then speculates on the usefulness of such a tool f...

Over the last decade, rapid prototyping (RP) technologies have continued to advance in all aspects of operation and application. From continuously advanced materials and processes development to more hard-core manufacturing uses, the RP realm has stretched considerably past its original expectations as a prototyping capability. This paper discusses the unique applications for which NASA has cho...