With the application of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMTs), food manufacturers can operate outside traditional volume-variety diagonal positions without predicted performance penalties. Although produce high-variety and high-volume products with low cost high quality, it is unavoidable that their production processes experience a changeover frequency. Changeovers are not only time-consu...

During the “life” of an industrial plant, many changes happen. Starting from an initial configuration of production lines, manufacturing and assembly departments, tools and equipment rooms, the plant layout could change because of new and different needs. Often, the above layout modifications are not correctly studied and optimized, causing problems in the management of worker movement and mate...

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Due to shorter product lifecycles in combination with increasing product complexity, more and more enterprises are considering using the Digital Factory. One important part of the Digital Factory is the System Layout/System Design process, which includes the engineering of industrial plants – a very complex and cost-intensive domain. In this design science oriented paper, we developed a concept...

Incorporating sustainability into the supply chain is becoming a key priority for many textile and apparel companies. For example, H&M, Patagonia, and The North Face have incorporated various approaches to enhance their levels of sustainable supply chain management. Typical approaches include sustainable product strategy, sustainable investment, sustainable performance evaluation, corporate soc...

Manufacturing companies are facing three challenges: low cost production of product, high quality standard and rapid responsiveness to customer requirements. These three goals are equally important for the manufacturing companies who want to be competitive in the global economy. Reconfigurable machining system facilitate the demand for Mass Customization Manufacturing, (MCM). The reconfigurable...

This paper presents solution techniques for a three-dimensional Automatic Made-to-Measure (AMM) scheme for apparel products. Freeform surface is adopted to represent the complex geometry models of apparel products. When designing the complex surface of an apparel product, abstractions are stored in conjunction with the models using a non-manifold data structure. Apparel products are essentially...