Since the semiconductor industry hit the 0.18-micron generation, device feature sizes have become increasingly smaller than the wavelength of light used by available optical-lithography equipment. In this subwavelength arena, manufacturing requirements must be handled up front in the IC design stage—while changes can still be made—to enhance quality and yield. This paper defines the components ...

Many manufacturing industries, especially small to medium-sized companies, are in the process of exploring the move from two-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) technologies to three-dimensional CAD tools interfaced with product data management (PDM) systems. For many companies, their current organizational structure is not well suited to fully leverage the capabilities of new CAD/PDM techn...

It is always a very costly process to achieve a high level of reliability in software industry. So it is desirable for an industry to design software with minimum cost and optimal level of reliability. This paper addresses the problem of maximizing reliability of software by minimizing the overall cost of software. The technique deals with selecting various modules of application with optimal r...

Financial corporations and especially banking institutions have important needs concerning to the development of software around their business core. The software, that traditionally had been developed in house by the IT departments, is now usually outsourced to IT firms. These firms work under the software factories model. An important feature within this sector is that usually the financial g...

The computer software industry is in a period of massive growth that shows no signs of diminishing as new markets are continuously identified and approached. Currently, the tools and techniques to aid in the development and debugging of software is extremely limited and has not kept pace with the needs of the software industry. Improvements have been made in the software design processes (throu...

In response to the need of using electronic design data directly in construction management applications, many CAD developers have started implementing semantic data models in their CAD products using industry foundation classes (IFCs). While helpful, these semantic CAD applications have limitations when used in actual construction practices. The case studies in the thesis indicated that: 1) th...

In the last few decades, the importance of software design on the success of larger programming projects has grown rapidly. To support this process appropriate tools which support the designer in the task of software design and specification are crucial. This project decribes the implementation of a new specification tool that allows software designers to strictly specify any objectoriented ent...

Paint cure oven is one of the most important parts of automobile production line. The cure speed and the magnitude of energy consumption are significant in auto manufacturing industry. The radiation oven has been of the interest by cure industry due to the reduction in energy consumption and appropriate cure. The design process of these ovens is really complex specially for bodies with comp...

abstract: the aim of this research is to propose a new approach of kansei engineering, kano model and taguchi design of experiments to identify, categorize and prioritize customersʹ emotional needs (kansei) in the automotive industry in order to more customer satisfaction. to achieve the above aim, first customersʹ kansei words identified and screened; then these words classified based on kano ...