There are many factors which affect the performance of a complex production system. Efficiency of an assembly line is one of the most important of these factors since assembly lines are generally constructed as the last stage of an entire production system. Parallel two-sided assembly line system is a new research domain in academia though these lines have been utilised to produce large sized p...

For solving the key technical challenge and problem in the heterogeneous components assembly and realizing the industrialization production of software products, and to use the producing system and mode of the modern manufacturing industry for reference, a new industrialized PL-ISEE (product line based integrated software engineering environment) model is firstly proposed. And then, through the...

This paper describes an analog computer simulation of a manned orbital docking system conducted as a fe~sibility study. In addition to determining the possibility of a human operator performing guidance and attitude control functions with a minimum amount of displayed information, additional purposes of the study were to determine (1) terminal values of range rate, line-of-sight (LOS) angle, LO...

An aircraft (manned aircraft) may enter safely and legally into the US National Airspace System if and only if it has an airworthiness certificate complying with Federal Aviation Administration requirements. Although corresponding requirements, procedures and regulations for unmanned aircraft are in early development stages, they are expected to be similar to those set for manned aviation. This...

With the rapid development of the industry sector, the assembly line has also experienced development, whose rationality determines the production efficiency of industrial production. In this paper, in order to address the balancing issue of assembly lines for industrial production, a combinatorial optimization method is proposed for the optimization and implementation of the assembly line base...

Thousands of small and medium scale industries are present in India. All are facing certain problems resulting in shortage of production and quality issues. This case study deals with the kaizen implementation in an industry in an assembly line in India that manufactures front and rear axle for heavy and medium vehicles. Kaizen technique has tremendous effect on operations of a firm, including ...

Mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) is a type of assembly line where several distinct models of a product are assembled. MMAL is applied in many industrial environments today because of its greater variety in demand. This paper considers the objective of minimizing the work overload (i.e., the line balancing problem) and station-to-station product flows. Generally, transportation time between stat...

A salient feature of the manned spacecraft is the predominance of discrete information in the manual control loop of the onboard systems. Specifically, command-signaling control panels (CSCP) as a subsystem of the manual control loop are widely used in the Russian manned spacecraft. In this paper CSCP are classified into four types: a) control panels based on multichannel control; b) control pa...

To operate in civil airspace, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are expected to maintain safe separation from other aircraft. Self-separation and Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS) designed for unmanned aircraft are under development to meet this requirement. To maintain airspace safety, these systems must interoperate safely with CAS onboard manned aircraft. Whereas manned aircraft CAS such as TC...