Adopting lean manufacturing techniques in small and medium manufacturing enterprises [PDF]
, 2010 Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) form a significant part of national and regional economic prosperity. They strengthen the capacity to generate employment and wealth for national and regional benefit.
Danielli, Shaun Pau
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Design and construction of a novel reconfigurable micro manufacturing cell [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Demands for producing small components are increasing. Such components are usually produced using large-size conventional machining tools.
Al-Sharif, Rakan
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A model for manufacturing cell job redesign [PDF]
, 1997 Cellular manufacturing is widely viewed as an exemplary form of manufacturing organisation for small batch size production. A UK survey states that over 75% of British engineering industry have introduced or are planning to introduce cellular ...
Gassmann, Robert
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A framework for manufacturing system reconfiguration and optimisation utilising digital twins and modular artificial intelligence [PDF]
, 2023 Digital twins and artificial intelligence have shown promise for improving the robustness, responsiveness, and productivity of industrial systems. However, traditional digital twin approaches are often only employed to augment single, static systems to ...
Chaplin, Jack C. +15 more
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Analysis of time series importance measure of high-end equipment cellular manufacturing system
Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2023 Aiming at the problem to difficultly identify the weak links of the cellular manufacturing system, a method for analyzing the importance measure based on the time series is proposed.
LI Haibao, ZHANG Shuai, ZHAO Jiangbin
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Design of a facility layout problem in cellular manufacturing systems with stochastic demands [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2018 odels majorly have focused on the cell formation issue and the layout design of machines, but have paid little attention to the placement of cells in dynamic environment.
Amir-Mohammad Golmohammadi +3 more
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Toward functionally graded cellular microstructures [PDF]
, 2009 The design of multifunctional materials offers great potential for numerous applications in areas ranging from biomaterial science to structural engineering.
Corney, J.R., Torres-Sanchez, C.
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A New Mathematical Model for Integration of Cell Formation with Machine Layout and Cell Layout by Considering Alternative Process Routing Reliability; A Novel Hybrid Metaheuristic [PDF]
International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research, 2019 There is still a great deal of attention in cellular manufacturing systems and proposing capable metaheuristics to better solve these complicated optimization models.
Amir-Mohammad Golmohammadi +3 more
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Distributed Control of a Manufacturing System with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
Complexity, 2018 We present a distributed control modeling approach for an automated manufacturing system based on the dynamics of one-dimensional cellular automata. This is inspired by the fact that both cellular automata and manufacturing systems are discrete dynamical
Irving Barragan-Vite +4 more
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Reconfigurable manufacturing system design: The case of mobile manufacturing system [PDF]
, 2014 Mobile manufacturing is an enabler to increase the possibility to change and to adapt to altering needs, where the geographical position is not fixed.
BENAMA, Youssef +5 more
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