A new type of computer-aided engineering environment is envisioned which will improve the productivity of manufacturing/industrial engineers. This environment would be used by engineers to design and implement future manufacturing systems and subsystems. This paper describes work which is currently underway at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on computer-a...

Die informationstechnische Infrastruktur sehr vieler Industriebetriebe ist durch die gleichzeitige Verwendung mehrerer spezialisierter Anwendungsprogramme, die auf die Lösung bestimmter Probleme zugeschnitten sind, geprägt [Abe90]. Besonders im Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) ist man auf solche Speziallösungen für einzelne Aufgabenbereiche wie z.B. PDM, PPS oder CAD, die in der Regel ke...

Logic control is an integral part of manufacturing systems. The creation and debugging of the logic control represents a significant amount of the effort needed to design a large manufacturing system. Today's rapidly shifting markets have greatly reduced the life of a product design and the manufacturing system to produce it. As a result reconfigurable manufacturing systems are being developed ...

Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is increasingly becoming a viable manufacturing process due to dramatic advantages that are achievable in the area of design complexity. Through the exploration of the design freedom, this paper introduces the concept of manufacturing textiles for potential smart and high performance textile applications. This paper discusses the current limitations associated with the ...

This investigation addresses distributed environments for computer-aided process planning (CAPP) over a network. The Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard using Java is applied to implement cross-platform and distributed computing architecture, thus reducing the system loading during manufacturing process planning. The product-oriented standard, standard exchange of product (STEP), model da...

The rise of cloud computing is radically changing the way enterprises manage their information technology (IT) assets. Considering the benefits of cloud computing to the information technology sector, we present a review of current research initiatives and applications of the cloud computing paradigm related to product design and manufacturing. In particular, we focus on exploring the potential...