though diet can influence the fluorescent signal obtained, instruments have been designed with adequate sensitivity for the detection of feces from animals consuming a variety of commercial feedlot rations. This imaging technology has been developed through intellectual property protection and technology transfer into commercially produced instruments, which are currently being manufactured and...

A concept of Lean can be seen as a loosely connected set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste, and organise the possible effort to utilise waste of all kinds in a productive way. The avoidance and then lateral removal of waste has a long history, and as such this history forms much of the basis of the philosophy now known as "Lean". Many o...

PDM Systems contain and manage heavy amount of data but the search mechanism of most of the systems is not intelligent which can process user‟s natural language based queries to extract desired information. Currently available search mechanisms in almost all of the PDM systems are not very efficient and based on old ways of searching information by entering the relevant information to the respe...

during the last decade, a high degree of perfection has been achieved in the construction of hydraulic rock drills. these equipments, made for mining and tunnelling, enjoy a good reputation today and may be the only tools of tomorrow. in this paper, the historical development as well as the technical characteristics are described and a comparative study has been made by the table shown in the p...

SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS IN MONOZUKURI MANUFACTURING THE modern world faces many very difficult challenges, including global warming, resource and energy depletion, and rapid socioeconomic change. At the same time, while rapid progress is being made on establishing the foundations of a prosperous society, there are also calls from around the world for highly reliable social infrastructure that pro...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing industries in Iran. So, the data will be collected from 23 Iranian manufacturing industries during “2002–2006” and the methods such as DEA and panel data used to study the subject. Results obtained by the above two methods represent that IT has a positive and statisti...

This paper presents a new approach to implementing agile design and manufacturing concepts. The approach is based on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet technologies with the conventional design and manufacturing techniques. An architecture based on AI and Internet programming is proposed for remotely and quickly accessing bearing design and manufacturing expertise at l...

rapid prototyping (rp) is a technique of manufacturing parts by the additive layer manufacturing technology; where, a three-dimensional (3d) model created in a computer aided design (cad) system is sectioned into 2d profiles, which are further constructed by rp layer by layer. its use is not limited to industrial or engineering fields and has extended to the medical field for the manufacturing ...

production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...