Recent advances in manufacturing technology and industrial automation require efficient and quality oriented machining practices. Performance, cost effectiveness and reliability of the work piece depends on the quality of surface roughness and can be measured with contact (conventional) and non contact (advanced) methods. Various measurement techniques starting from stylus to machine vision are...

1 Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 2 Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. 3 Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 4 Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Kerma...

1 UTM Razak School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, International Campus, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2 Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. 3 Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. 4 Faculty of Me...

Radio Frequency Identification is an automatic identification and data capture technology with huge potential in manufacturing and distribution. RFID’s broader applications in manufacturing operations include material handling, asset tracking, inventory visibility, information management, quality control and labor scheduling. Although this technology has been in use for the last twelve to thirt...

OBJECTIVES Comparative in vivo studies were carried out to determine the adsorption characteristics of amitriptyline (AMT) on activated charcoal (AC) and sodium polystyrene sulfonate (SPS). AC has been long used as gastric decontamination agent for tricyclic antidepressants and SPS has showed to be highly effective on in-vitro drugs adsorption. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sprague-Dawley male rats w...

Computer and internet based questionnaires have become a standard tool in Human-Computer Interaction research and other related fields, such as psychology and sociology. Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) service is a new method of recruiting participants and conducting certain types of experiments. This study compares whether participants recruited through AMT give different responses than partici...

Welcome to this second lecture on advanced manufacturing processes. In this session, we will discuss the concepts of advanced manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing and their examples. The trends in manufacturing and the newer manufacturing philosophies adopted by the manufacturers to remain competitive in the market have also been presented.