The production of high-quality products and efficient manufacturing processes in modern environments, where processes vary widely, is one of the most crucial issues today. Statistical process control (SPC) and process mining (PM) effectively trace an...
The application of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) in additive manufacturing (AM) can effectively reduce material and energy waste in the manufacturing process and help achieve lightweight parts. As a result, AM PEEK is considered an emerging technology...
As the complexity of micro-products increases, the micro-manufacturing processes, tool setups, and measurement processes have to be more precise and efficient. Combining them in a multi-stage process chain can effectively improve production accuracy...
In response to the growing complexity of modern process manufacturing systems, this paper proposes a novel simulation framework named the Process–Equipment–In-Process State (PEI) simulation method, which introduces a unified and structure...
Reliability and product process quality are essential in meeting market demand and enhancing competitiveness in the machine tool industry. In addition, manufacturing time performance is also one of the important indices. Therefore, this paper focuses...
Process planning in manufacturing today focuses on optimizing the conflicting targets of cost, quality, and time. Due to increasing social awareness and subsequent governmental regulation, environmental impact becomes a fourth major aspect. Eventuall...
As the adoption of information technologies increases in the manufacturing industry, manufacturing companies should efficiently manage their data and manufacturing processes in order to enhance their manufacturing competency. Because smart factories...
Companies accumulate a large amount of production process data during product manufacturing. Sequence data from the mining production process can enable a company to evaluate the manufacturing process, to find the key factors affecting product qualit...
Recently, besides recurrent financial gains, industries have been required to boost their environmental and social performance to fulfil the demands of several stakeholders. Moreover, the need to measure the sustainability of manufacturing processes...
The aim of this paper is the issue of a sustainable manufacturing process in the context of woodworking by sanding, as one of the most important technological operations before its final treatment, focusing on a selected pillar of sustainable manufac...
In fields such as industrial engineering and healthcare, additive manufacturing technology is a focal point for researchers. Wear represents a significant challenge for additive manufacturing technology, increasingly emerging as a research hotspot in...
The evolution of knowledge acquisition and representation in manufacturing technologies is vital for translating complex manufacturing data into actionable insights and advancing a comprehensive knowledge framework. This framework is pivotal in drivi...
Process re-engineering and optimization in manufacturing industries is a big challenge because of process interdependencies characterized by a high failure rate. Research has shown that over 70% of approaches fail because of complexity as a result of...
Squalene emulsions are among the most widely employed vaccine adjuvant formulations. Among the demonstrated benefits of squalene emulsions is the ability to enable vaccine antigen dose sparing, an important consideration for pandemic response. In ord...
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In today’s hyper-competitive manufacturing world, the rapidly changing landscape has put new demands on organizations, and they need to reinvent themselves by injecting new strategies in order to stay ahead of the competition. Therefore, to ach...
In principle, modular or integral character of manufacturing lines depends on the topological designs of products and determined operation tasks. On the other hand, in specific situations there is an articulated need for modular design in smart manuf...
Ultrasonic-assisted wire–arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) can refine microstructures, enhancing performance and improving stress concentration and anisotropy. It has important application prospects in aerospace, weaponry, energy, transportatio...
Several high-tech manufacturing technologies are emerging to meet the demand for mass customized products. These technologies include configurable robots, augmented reality and the Internet-of-Things. Manufacturing enterprises can leverage these new...
Optimal lot sizing is the primary tool applied by lean practitioners to reduce inconsistency in the manufacturing system to cut down inventories, which are often considered as a type of waste in the lean culture. Managers attempt to consider environm...
When a consultant of a company that provides a smart factory solution consults with a customer, it is difficult to define the outline of the manufacturing process and create all activities within the process by case. It requires a large amount of res...
In the past decade, the sales of metal additive manufacturing systems have increased intensely. In particular, PBF-LB/M systems (powder bed fusion of metals using a laser-based system) represent a technology of great industrial interest, in which met...
Model-based concepts have been proven to be beneficial in pharmaceutical manufacturing, thus contributing to low costs and high quality standards. However, model parameters are derived from imperfect, noisy measurement data, which result in uncertain...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing are increasingly facing challenges of digital transformation and a shift towards cloud-based solutions to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) or, more specifically, machine learning (ML)...
Lyophilization stabilizes formulated biologics for storage, transport and application to patients. In process design and operation it is the link between downstream processing and with final formulation to fill and finish. Recent activities in Qualit...
In order to optimize the additive manufacturing process and find the process parameters affecting the mechanical properties of the parts, an additive manufacturing simulation model of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy was established, and the effects of ambie...
In the industrial production scenario, the goal of engineering is focused on the continuous improvement of the process performance by maximizing the effectiveness of the manufacturing and the quality of the products. In order to address these aims, t...
Polymer-based additive manufacturing (AM) gathers a great deal of interest with regard to standardization and implementation in mass production. A new methodology for the system and process capabilities analysis in additive manufacturing, using stati...
Today, there are a wide variety of ways to produce goods in a manufacturing company. Among the most common are mass or line production and process production, both of which are antagonists. In an online production system, materials move from station...
Additive manufacturing (AM), especially the extrusion-based process, has many process parameters which influence the resulting part properties. Those parameters have complex interdependencies and are therefore difficult if not impossible to model ana...
In the evolving landscape of manufacturing, the integration of intelligent control theory stands as a pivotal advancement, driving both process optimization and the paradigm of smart manufacturing. This review delves into the multifaceted application...
Lean Manufacturing includes an ensemble of methods to analyze and continuously improve the functioning of manufacturing systems. The research presented in the literature highlights the fact that these methods are, on their own, in a process of contin...
In times of increasing awareness of sustainability and the need for efficient business processes, this study explores the integration of business process reengineering with circular economy principles within Serbian manufacturing organizations. Addre...
Quality management is important for maximizing yield in continuous-flow manufacturing. However, it is more difficult to manage quality in continuous-flow manufacturing than in discrete manufacturing because partial defects can significantly affect th...
The need to manufacture a copy of a mechanical part typically arises when a single replacement part is necessary and is out of stock or out of production altogether. For parts with intricate details and associated accuracy requirements, investment ca...
With the adoption of service-oriented manufacturing modes, more and more manufacturing services are released over manufacturing service platforms. As it is known, the problem of the QoS (Quality of Service)-aware manufacturing service composition is...
This work copes with the design and implementation of a wireless sensors network architecture to automatically and continuously monitor, for the first time, the manufacturing process of Sardinian Carasau bread. The case of a traditional bakery compan...
In the context of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, production factories are increasingly focusing on process optimization, high product customization, quality improvement, cost reduction, and energy saving by implementing a new type of digital s...
Manufacturing industries are constantly identifying ways to automate machinery and processes to reduce waste and increase profits. Machines that were previously handled manually in non-standardized manners can now be automated. Converting non-digital...
The objective of this publication is to present a quality control methodology for additive manufacturing products made of polymer materials, where the methodology varies depending on the intended use. The models presented in this paper are divided in...
Continuous manufacturing opens up new operation windows with improved product quality in contrast to documented lot deviations in batch or fed-batch operations. A more sophisticated process control strategy is needed to adjust operation parameters an...
Carbon accounting is critical to manufacturing and achieving a low-carbon transition and lean carbon management. A comprehensive understanding of carbon emissions in manufacturing is essential to calculate a product’s carbon footprint accuratel...
With the continuous development in technology and changes in the logistic systems, organizations should review their logistic processes that evolve over time. To attain a good insight into the conformance of these processes with the designed process...
The manufacturing industry, with globalization and information technology, is facing cost pressure, low profits, technology difficulties and many other challenges. Enterprises need to strengthen cost management, improve production efficiency, and mee...
Hybrid manufacturing combines manufacturing processes (typically additive manufacturing and machining) exploiting the benefits of each and enabling repair scenarios. Such an approach can be integrated with a robot, and if made portable, can form a fl...
The garment manufacturing industry is a labor-intensive industry, with one of the slowest transitions to automation. Hence, it is essential to build a smart factory based on automated systems to improve productivity and allow responsive production in...
This paper presents a new method of process parameter optimization, adequate for 3D printing of PLA (Polylactic Acid) components. The authors developed a new piece of Hybrid Manufacturing Equipment (HME), suitable for producing complex parts made fro...
Additive manufacturing technology overcomes the limitations imposed by traditional manufacturing techniques, such as fixtures, tools, and molds, thereby enabling a high degree of design freedom for parts and attracting significant attention. Combined...
Process simulation using mathematical modeling tools is becoming more common in the pharmaceutical industry. A mechanistic model is a mathematical modeling tool that can enhance process understanding, reduce experimentation cost and improve product q...
The product’s manufacturing process has an evident influence on product quality. In order to control the quality and identify the critical procedure of the product manufacturing process reasonably and effectively, a method combining genetic bac...
The future of machine tools will be dominated by highly flexible and interconnected systems, in order to achieve the required productivity, accuracy, and reliability. Nowadays, distortion and vibration problems are easily solved in labs for the most...
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