The use of commercially available continuous glucose monitors for diabetes management requires sensor calibrations, which until recently are exclusively performed by the patient. A new development is the implementation of factory calibration for subcutaneous glucose sensors, which eliminates the need for user calibrations and the associated blood glucose tests. Factory calibration means that th...

This article reviews various mechanisms in languages and operating systems for deterministic real-time computing. Openarchitecture systems will be defined and their applications in manufacturing will be addressed. Market directions for openarchitecture manufacturing systems will be surveyed. Performance issues based on real-time, reliability, and safety will be discussed relating to manufacturi...

Background: Although the expansion of innovation in the industry has led to an increase in the fast of works, production and productivity, it has also imposed an increase in the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders. So, the aim of this study was determination the risk level of work posture by REBA and RULA method among workers of assembly line of a cosmetic manufacturing factory. Methods: Th...

The global economic constantly changing and the advent of new technologies imply the demand of changing in the business pattern of manufacturing industry. Nowadays, most manufacturing companies have realized the importance of collaboration between dispersed factories, different suppliers and distributed stakeholders, in a quick, real-time and effective manner. Cloud computing is an evolution of...

A current trend for manufacturing industry is shorter product life cycle, remote monitoring/control/diagnosis, product miniaturization, high precision, zero-defect manufacturing and information-integrated distributed production systems for enhanced efficiency and product quality (Cohen, 1997; Bennis et al., 2005; Goldin et al., 1998; Goldin et al., 1999; Kwon et al., 2004). In tomorrow’s factor...

Funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research – A*STAR – Singapore, CAMTech is collaborating with a Singaporean research institute and two industry partners with the objective to improve electronics assembly processes. The goal of this project is to visualise the behaviour of an electronics assembly industry based on discrete events simulation. The traditional scenario from the cust...

We review MIT research in manufacturing systems engineering, and we describe current and possible future research activities in this area. This includes advances in decomposition techniques, optimization, token-based control systems analysis, multiple part types, inspection location, data collection and several other topics.

This paper presents an integrated methodology for building a virtual factory. This methodology integrates discrete event simulation directly to 3D animation with its novel methods that analyze and convert discrete simulation results into animation events to trigger 3D animation. In addition, it constructs a 3D animation framework for the visualization of discrete event simulation. This framewor...

Complete List of Authors: Yang, Xiang; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Malak, René; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Lauer, Christian; University of Kaiserslautern, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems Weidig, Christian; University of Kaiserslautern, In...