Abstract: In an automotive production system, material handling is a critical activity in terms of increasing system efficiency and reducing overall cost. The existing literatures often separate the production system and material ...

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: Standalone throughput (SAT) of a single station is one of the most widely used performance indexes in industry due to its clear definition, ease of evaluation and the ability to provide a guidance for continuous improvement ...

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: Severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing such as equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) has been pioneered to produce ultrafine grained (UFG) metals for improved mechanical and physical properties. However, understanding ...