Agility, speed and flexibility in production networks are required in today's global competition in the flat world. The accuracy of order date delivery promises is a key elem...
Juhani Heilala, Jari Montonen, Arttu Salmela, Pasi...
FACTOR/AIM (AIM) is a simulation system designed specifically for use in manufacturing decision support. AIM has been successfully applied to engineering design, scheduling, and p...
: Virtual-build-to-order (VBTO) is a form of order fulfilment system in which the producer has the ability to search across the entire pipeline of finished stock, products in produ...
We present an approach for automatically generating complete process plans, including xturing and CNC code, from high level shape feature part descriptions. The demonstration syst...
Mark Bloomenthal, Richard F. Riesenfeld, Elaine Co...
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Arnout Pool, Jakob Wijngaa...