In this paper we present our approach, the migration of the life cycle paradigm into the manufacturing engineering area. We introduce our approach by defining and scientifically founding the new concepts, advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Factories as Products and Factory Life Cycle. We present the used technologies and tools in supporting the factory life cycle activities, by comparing them ...

We challenge the appropriateness and feasibility of a wholesale substitution of computerized automation for human resources in the factory of the future. Employees will exert greater ·influence than ever before because of the complexity, cost and critical role of the equipment with which they work. Tills view is supported through examples of the significance of human ·inputs in almost every lev...

In this article, we describe an approach to empirical software engineering based on a combined software factory and software laboratory. The software factory develops software required by an external customer while the software laboratory monitors and improves the processes and methods used in the factory. We have used this approach during a period of five years to define and evaluate an agile ...

In this article, we describe an approach to empirical software engineering based on a combined software factory and software laboratory. The software factory develops software required by an external customer while the software laboratory monitors and improves the processes and methods used in the factory. We have used this approach during a period of four years to define and evaluate a softwar...

Factory operations have been modeled for years to understand the relationship between the different design and policy factors and the performance measures of interest. The increasing awareness of the need to manage factories as a link in the supply chain places a corresponding requirement for an enhanced approach for factory modeling. This paper describes the modeling of a computer assembly fac...

Das Blue Print Plant Model ist ein integriertes Unternehmensmodell, welches Objekte und deren Parameter einer Fabrik mit Prozessen sowie den Berechnungs- Auslegungsverfahren verbindet. Dabei werden Partikularmodelle, wie zum Beispiel Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalysen, flexibel eingebunden. Die integrierte Betrachtung unterstützt eine Datendurchgängigkeit, der sich Medienbrüche entlang Planungsphasen ...

This paper reflects the current work on the integration of Time Management in the Digital Factory. To eliminate deficits in the integration of leading planning tools, a methodical approach was established in order to develop application protocols based on a systematic basis for the Digital Factory. Therefore, a joint project with both industrial and research partners has been initiated. Beside ...

Estimating the job cycle time is very important for the control of a factory. However, the uncertainty in the job cycle time is not easy to deal with. In order to effectively estimate the job cycle time in a wafer fabrication factory, a group of distributed sensors are used in this study. In the proposed methodology, each sensor monitors the factory conditions, and uses a fuzzy neural network t...

This chapter describes the application of the RAP/AOR methodology proposed by Taveter and Wagner (2005, 2006) to the modeling and simulation of a real ceramics factory. The chapter addresses the modeling of the ceramics factory from the interaction, information, and behavior aspects of the methodology. The chapter also discusses the simulation of the manufacturing processes of the ceramics fact...

Recent results on B mixing and CP violation from the B-factory experiments, BABAR at PEP-II and Belle at KEK-B, are summarized. A discussion of CP violation is then presented which concentrates on the CP parameter sin2β (also known as sin2φ1). The most recent measurements of this parameter from B-factory data yield sin2β = 0.741± 0.067 (stat)± 0.033 (syst) (BaBar) sin2φ1 = 0.719± 0.072 (stat)± ...