An overview is presented of the recently proposed Vehicle and Heavy Equipment Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Technology Development project under the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) of ARPA. The goals of the tasks proposed in the manufacturing process simulation area are discussed in detail, with particular emphasis on casting. An important aspect envisioned is the inte...

The process of metallurgical equipment information space is complex and diverse, including multi-level spatial information or spatial process factor. How to divide the metallurgical equipment information space, to plan its communication path intelligently and to enhance the level of intelligent equipment has become one of the metallurgical equipment systems’ problems needing to be resolved. Aim...

in primary care medicine, deciding how to invest a practice’s precious capital resources is becoming more difficult. Purchasing procedural medical equipment is something many physicians may consider, and sales representatives for the equipment can always make the investment sound enticing. But how do you really know if the investment will be beneficial to you – financially or otherwise? Wheth...

One or more interconnected steam power plants (SPPs) are constructed in a petrochemical complex to supply utility energy to the process. To avoid large economic penalties or process shutdowns, these SPPs should be flexible and reliable enough to meet the process energy requirement under varying conditions. Unexpected utility equipment failure is inevitable and difficult to be predicted. Most of...

Employing equipment reliability databases can generate a process of continual improvement. This paper suggests a methodology that uses equipment reliability databases, and a process of benchmarking to establish a continual improvement procedure by learning "how others are doing it". A simple decision-making procedure is suggested too, to assist in prioritizing the processes/equipment that are c...

This paper presents an overview of the design of electrochemical processing equipment for semiconductor and related microelectronic manufacturing as well as a review of publications that are applicable to electrochemical wafer process equipment. We discuss several types of electrochemical processes applicable to wafer processing and the considerations that go into automated equipment for these ...