Aerospace industry is approaching a phase where the manufacturing excellence seems to hold the strongest competitive advantage instead of the design excellence. This trend emphasizes the urgent need for cost minimization and focus on process improvements rather than on perfecting existing designs. Most of the aerospace companies have already invested heavily in process improvements using variou...

The growing instability of the business arena, advancements of the information and communication technologies, and increased competition determined manufacturing enterprises to change their way of pursuing business. As consequence, new paradigms for manufacturing engineering systems have emerged. The aim of this article is to present preliminary results of an inter-disciplinary (on-going) resea...

The ability to track the location of goods throughout an agile manufacturing environment can provide for the mass production of customized products. When an agile manufacturing system controller knows where a particular product is within its manufacturing cycle, and what further operations are required for customization, it can make smart decisions as to how this product can be re-routed. Custo...

This paper focuses on an inventory model considering imperfect manufacturing and re-manufacturing system under single management. In manufacturing system, the items are produced from original raw materials but in re-manufacturing process, returned and defective items produced in previous manufacturing process are the raw materials. Both the production system shift from ‘ in control state ‘ to ‘...

A neural network based vision system for micro workpieces manufacturing is developing. The system has to recognize the shapes of the micro workpieces and to give the information for correction of the workpieces manufacturing process. The system prototype was proved off-line on the task of 3 mm screw shape recognition. The shape distortions were made with the incorrect position of the cutter in ...

This paper describes an approach to integrated manufacturing systems. It aims to integrate design and development activities, as well as the entities existing in a manufacturing system. A model of manufacturing systems is presented, including manufacturing entities with different roles and domains related to them. The characteristics of the manufacturing entities are discussed, including change...

This paper discusses the conceptual structure and implementation of an integrated, computer-aided manufacturing system design environment, known as I/O-CAMSD (integrated and open computer-aided manufacturing system design). The work has provided valuable information to prove the feasibility of developing an integrated CAMSD framework to support the complete cycle of manufacturing operation—from...

Successful manufacturing system designs must be capable of satisfying the strategic objectives of a company. There exist numerous tools to design manufacturing systems. Most frameworks, however, do not separate objectives from means. As a result, it is difficult to understand the interactions among different design objectives and solutions and to communicate these interactions. The research des...

In this paper, through empirical and analytical evidences, we show that manufacturing system design does have an impact on product quality. We suggest several research opportunities addressing the quality implications in manufacturing system design from the automotive industry perspective. Finally, we present application studies to model and analyze the impact of manufacturing system design on ...