Developing approaches to integrating manufacturing applications is important for increasing manufacturing productivity. A reactive scheduling system architecture has been developed that defines how to integrate scheduling technology with manufacturing shop floor applications. Prototype implementations based on this architecture have been built using a simulation of a shop floor instead of a rea...

Design of a decision-aiding model between subtractive manufacturing and 3Dprinting Tuan Minh Ryan Pham and Colton Harrison 3D-printing is becoming more and more widely used in industry. As this happens, manufacturers are becoming unsure of when to use this new technology and when to trudge on with subtractive (conventional) manufacturing processes. Subtractive manufacturing processes are well-e...

This study examines the impact of RFID technology utilization on organizational agility in manufacturing firms. Data from a sample of 328 manufacturers were collected and the model was assessed following a structural equation methodology. Findings indicate that adoption of RFID technology utilization directly and positively impacts organizational agility which in turn directly and positively im...

An upcoming industrial IoT revolution, supposedly led by the introduction of embedded sensing and computing, seamless communication and massive data analytics within industrial processes [1], seems unquestionable today. Multiple technologies are being developed, and huge marketing efforts are being made to position solutions in this industrial landscape. However, we have observed that industria...

In the first-ever demonstration of FinFET technology suitable for 10-nm CMOS manufacturing – pushing device scaling two nodes beyond the current leading-edge volume production technology – Samsung and others will jointly showcase a platform technology for low-power and high-performance applications. It offers the tightest contacted poly pitch (64 nm) and metallization pitch (48 nm) ever reporte...

Manufacturing companies in the 21st Century will face unpredictable, high-frequency market changes driven by global competition. To stay competitive, these companies must possess new types of manufacturing systems that are cost-effective and very responsive to all these market changes. Reconfigurability, an engineering technology that deals with cost-effective, quick reaction to market changes,...

generally, developing countries are not able to invest enough on r&d; therefore, they try to get benefit from knowledge spillover, as an external r&d.; this paper tries to investigate the impact of r&d; expenditures and imported intermediate goods, as a proxy for technology imports, on value added of iranian industries. to that end, we use a panel data set of iranian two-digit isic manufacturin...

Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS) provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. WINS combine microsens...

As a new approach, grid technology is rapidly used in scientific computing, large-scale data management, and collaborative work. But in the field of manufacturing, the application of grid is just at the beginning. The paper proposes the concept of manufacturing. The needs, definition and architecture of manufacturing gird are discussed, which explains why needs manufacturing grid, what is manuf...

Wire saw, with its ability to cut very thin wafers from large diameter crystalline ingots of semiconductor materials, has emerged as a leading technology for wafer production in semiconductor and photovoltaic industry. Nevertheless, the wire saw cutting process remains lacking a theoretical methodology and is not properly understood. The modern times compulsion of more accurate and efficient ma...