For the last two decades, the application of robotics is diversified in the industrial sector [1]. In majorities of the automation sectors especially car manufacturing and food industry, the industrial robot has replaced the manual labour. This type of implementation does not only reduce the labour cost and time but also produce the output with proper accuracy and quality measures [2]. Besides ...

Discrete event simulation models allow engineers to understand and predict the behaviour of manufacturing systems. A standard way of taking workers into account is to model them as resources not considering any person, organisational or environmental influences. Worker behaviour differs notably between people, tasks and systems which has an impact on the individual processing times and in the e...

We propose to apply novel pervasive computing technologies to revolutionize manufacturing of extremely complex products such as commercial and defense aerospace systems. Such manufacturing systems consist of a collection of extensive manual and automated data, participation of many specialized personnel and use of distributed product data repositories. These complex, low volume products have te...

Background: Job back pain is of the most common occupational injuries in the world that affects people's physical and mental health. The purpose of this study was to assess back compressive force (BCF) in manual handling tasks among workers of a chemical manufacturing company using the UTAH method. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out on a group of 35 workers doing man...

This paper examines how interruptions from information and communications technology systems affect errors and the time to complete tasks for assembly workers. Interruptions have previously been examined in laboratory experiments and office environments, but not much work has been performed in other authentic environments. This paper contains the results of an experiment that was performed in a...

Manual skill degradation is a common problem that production managers face in assembly lines due to frequent changes batch styles. Since the advancement automated machinery, reliance on manual machines has been reduced. However, high cost of fully it still not available large scale apparel manufacturing setups as most are developing countries. Few related studies regarding effects automation sk...

Many manufacturing processes have become fully automated resulting in high production volumes. However, this is not the case for inspection. Shortening the inspection times in manufacturing industry using the available information resources can result in the reduction of production lead-time and overall costs. Rapid advances in machine tool technology have resulted in fast processing Computer N...

Semiconductor manufacturing spans across many manufacturing areas, including wafer manufacturing where electronic circuitry is built layered on a wafer, chip manufacturing that involves circuit probing and testing, and product manufacturing from which the final IC (integrated circuits) products are assembled, and finally tested. Semiconductor manufacturing is well known as the most challenging ...

Production decisions in a manufacturing supply chain are no longer driven by manual systems based on instinct and experience. They are regulated interactions between analysts, production managers and their collective manipulation of policies within the production information system. This paper studies the demand behavior in manufacturing supply chains and its relationships to the logic of produ...