The major global challenges we are facing today need to be addressed in the multifaceted context of economy, society, environment and technology (ESET). In recent years, the consensus of calling for sustainable development (SD) and implementation has emerged. Alongwith this belief, high added value, knowledge-based, competitive sustainable manufacturing (CSM) has been widely considered as main ...

This paper presents a methodology to determine optimal process adjustments, which prevents manufacturing products from falling into in-tolerance fault regions (a subset of No-Fault-Found events) taking into consideration product and process adjustments constraints. The proposed methodology utilizes the design relationship between KPCs and KCCs to determine process functional adjustments. The me...

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) offer numerous advantages over combustion technology but they remain economically uncompetitive except for in niche applications. A portion of this cost is attributed to a lack of assembly expertise and the associated risks. To solve this problem, this research investigates the assembly systems that do exist for this product and systematically decomp...

Ground hardmetals are exposed to high temperatures during both processing (e.g. coating deposition) and use (e.g. as a cutting tool). However, studies on thermally induced changes of surface integrity are limited. Here we address this by means of FIB/FESEM and EBSD investigation, with special focus on the binder phase characterization. Our findings indicate that thermal treatment causes two mai...

This work is focused on evaluating performance of a collaborative robot welding cell developed in our previous research. Such a cell is based on an interactive cooperation between a human supervisor and a welding robot. This approach to organizing a workstation allows to employ robots even in the case of prototypes or small productions. Research on collaborative robots usually focuses on safety...