The acceleration of growth and job creation is a major challenge for North African Countries (NAC) which are witnessing a sharp increase in their labour force. The dominance of the textile/clothing sector and of sub-contracting in the automobile sector within the Maghreb’s industrial fabric, as well as the lack of alternative manufacturing specialization are sources of vulnerability. Consequent...

This paper compares the manufacturing and refueling costs of a Fuel-Cell Vehicle (FCV) and a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) using an automobile model reflecting the largest segment of light-duty vehicles. We use results from widely-cited government studies to compare the manufacturing and refueling costs of a BEV and a FCV capable of delivering 135 horsepower and driving approximately 300 miles...

Modern engineering design, analysis and manufacturing activities rely heavily on software to handle increasing volumes of data and model complexity. Automated Feature Recognition (AFR) technologies are highly demanded by manufacturing sectors since AFR can efficiently improve the performance of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) processes and reduce costs. Nevertheless, most existing FR applications a...

This research introduces a new approach to model the non-linear relations among different design and manufacturing evaluation measures for multiobjective optimal concurrent design. In this approach, different design and manufacturing evaluation measures are mapped to comparable evaluation indices. The non-linear relation between an evaluation measure and its evaluation index is identified based...

We propose a Multi-Agent framework to analyze the dynamics of organizational survival in cooperation networks. Firms can decide to cooperate horizontally (in the same market) or vertically with other firms that belong to the supply chain. Cooperation decisions are based on economic variables. We have defined a variant of the density dependence model to set up the dynamics of the survival in the...

A Supply Chain is the series of activities that an organization uses to deliver value to its customers. In today’s competitive environment, the globalization of markets has rapidly substituted the traditional integrated business. The competitive success of an organization no longer depends only on its own efforts, but relies on the efficiency of the entire supply chain. Therefore, building an e...

In this paper a knowledge based assembly control system for automobile manufactur ing is presented which has been implemented for the B M W manufac tu r ing facilit ies i n M u n i c h . The system is fu l ly integrated in the process control system. Its main purpose is to support the assembly supervisor in taking appropriate corrective actions in case of abnormal process condit ions. The disti...

Reverse engineering is an important branch in the field of mechanical design and manufacturing. This paper introduces reverse technology its working process, including digital processing, three-dimensional modeling, manufacturing, measurement inspection, so on. Taking rearview mirror automobile as example, it focuses on processing modeling.

background; work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) may involve all parts of the body, and have been a worldwide problem. employed women are two to five times more likely to report such problems, and assembly lines suspected to induce more wmsds because of high rate of repetitive motions. methods;the aim of this study to determine the prevalence of wmsds in women workers of an automobile...