Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise Paul J. Stamas Syracuse University, 2013 This case study research followed the two-year transition of a medium-sized manufacturing firm towards a service-oriented enterprise. A service-oriented enterprise is an emerging architecture of the firm that leverages the...

Modular Building Systems (MBS) offer numerous benefits in terms of productivity, sustainability and safety. Therefore, MBSs are considered as a viable option to sort out the housing crisis Britain well drive towards sustainable construction. Development materials, manufacturing techniques, connection types structural designs with respect offsite construction is essential achieve goals. Recent a...

In many equipment manufacturing industries, firms compete with each other not only on products price, but also on maintenance service. More and more traditional products oriented firms are offering their customers products bundled with maintenance service (P&S bundles). In this study, we examine firms’ incentive to offer customers products bundling with long-term maintenance or repair support s...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

This dissertation is concerned with the design and implementation of infrastructural systems for resilient Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication in distributed Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). For this purpose, a number of technologies are selected and applied in congruence with the principles of Smart Manufacturing. Thus, this dissertation investigates the use of Service Oriented Arc...

The use of mobile applications is now so common that users now expect companies whose services which they consume already have an application to provide these services or a mobile version of your site, but this is not always simple to do or cheap. Thus, the hybrid development has emerged as a potential alternative to this need. The evolution of this new paradigm has taken the attention of resea...

A novel Concrete Printing process has been developed, inspired and informed by advances in 3D printing, which has the potential to produce highly customised building components. Whilst still in their infancy, these technologies could create a new era of architecture that is better adapted to the environment and integrated with engineering function. This paper describes the development of a viab...

a communication net is usually represented by a linear graph g whose branches represent channels for information flow and whose vertices represent sources, sinks and switching centers. the purpose of this paper is to show that for modeling digital communication nets, conventional use of the concepts of capacity and terminal capacity is inadequate . we will present an alternative to max-flow min...