Abstract: Energy efficiency improvement and timely preventive maintenance (PM) are critical in manufacturing industry due to the rising energy cost, environmental concerns, and increasing requirements on system reliability. By ...

Abstract: In the last decade, global competition has forced manufacturers to optimize logistics. The implementation of collapsible containers provides a new perspective for logistics cost savings, since using collapsible containers ...

Abstract: In production systems, the buffer capacities have usually been assumed to be fixed during normal operations. Inspired by the observations from the real industrial operations, a novel concept of Adaptive Buffer Space (ABS) ...

Abstract: Ultrasonic welding (USW) is one of the joining technologies that can be applied to short carbon fiber thermoplastic composites. In this study, the USW of Nylon 6 reinforced by short carbon fibers created using injection ...

Abstract: Energy directors (EDs) have been widely used in ultrasonic welding (UW) of polymers and polymer-based composites. They help concentrate the welding energy and localize the weld at the location where the EDs are present. ...

Abstract: Recent efforts in smart manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications, and computational platforms, along with statistical methods to collect and analyze ...

Abstract: Today’s manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, and connected. The factory operations face challenges of highly nonlinear and stochastic activity due to the countless uncertainties and interdependencies ...