Assembly plays an important role in any production system as it constitutes a significant portion of the lead time and cost of a product. Virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) system is a modern production system being conceptually developed to extend the application of traditional computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) system to global level. Assembly scheduling in VCIM systems is ...

This chapter presents some of the issues with holonic manufacturing systems. It starts by presenting the current manufacturing scenario and trends and then provides some background information on the holonic concept and its application to manufacturing. The current limitations and future trends of manufacturing suggest more autonomous and distributed organisations for manufacturing systems; hol...

The question of plant layout is central in a manufacturing process. This question becomes even more important in a mass customization context, when large product diversity has to be managed. The manufacturing process, and specifically the plant layout, has to be designed taking into account this characteristic. When all products are similar, manufacturing plant layouts are relatively easy to de...

Cloud manufacturing is a new paradigm which has been under study since 2010 and a vast body of research has been conducted on this topic. Among them, service composition problems are of utmost importance. However, most studies only focused on private clouds meaning the objective function is defined for just one component of the supply chain. This paper attempts to consider service composition p...

Drilling and drilling-related operations constitute more than 60% of all machining processes in manufacturing industries. Consequently, it is important to know how to perform these operations properly. With availability of many machining processes capable of performing drilling operations sometimes it is difficult to decide which process would result in a higher profit or a lower unit cost for ...

Ashok Khanna has over 19 years of industry experience in the field of healthcare, hi-tech and telecom. As a business leader, his expertise spans multiple medical and pharmaceutical domain areas including new product development, product lifecycle management, manufacturing operations management, R&D and quality, regulatory and product sustenance. With over 21 years of experience in the IT indust...

This paper presents an assessment of the steps involved in trajectory synthesis (for example, trajectory layout, trajectory generation, trajectory spacing, trajectory postprocessing, and trajectory verification) for shape-creating manufacturing operations such as rapid prototyping, milling, and electrical discharge machining. The rationale for this paper is that trajectory plays an important ro...

This paper presents a test, diagnosis, and rework analysis model for use in manufacturing process modeling. The approach includes a model of functional test operations characterized by fault coverage, false positives, and defects introduced in test, in addition to rework and diagnosis (diagnostic test) operations that have variable success rates and their own defect introduction mechanisms. The...

The studies of the behavior of fluid on the nano-level has shown to be an important means of influencing the characteristic of fluid must especially in the area of thermal conductivity. Giving relevance in numerous fields such as biomedicine, manufacturing, fuel cells and soon on. This article considers flow and heat transfer of viscous fluid conveying Gold nanoparticles through expanding or co...