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Human Factors in Manufacturing Engineering
No full textThe trend in manufacturing industry is captured starkly in the following quotation: "Once in place, advanced manufacturing technologies can permanently change the basis of competition in an industry. Advanced technologies can impact either product or processes. Advances in product technology, resulting from expanded features of new materials, can make companies unable to produce new products with their existing manufacturing facilities. As these products replace the current product line, firms who do not upgrade their manufacturing capabilities cannot compete in the marketplace. Advances in process technology enable companies to gain a competitive advantage through excellence in manufacturing." Most of these advances emphasise the importance of engineering technology. There is no question but that engineering technology is at the heart of advanced manufacturing. This workshop addressed the issue of how that technology is to be brought into manufacturing organisations, and how it is to be brought to bear to the benefit of the organisation. The management of manufacturing increasingly makes use of Information Technology, and concomitantly the role of Human Factors has grown. This is due to two critical facts: a) the need to conceive of the organisation as an integrated system, comprising a symbiosis between people and technology; b) organisations are essentially open systems, open to their environments. These environments include government legislation, competitors, clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and so on. This environment is continually changing, and is competitive, so the organisation must continually evolve to meet the challenge from the environment
Process Monitoring of Machining Processes in Aero Engine Manufacture
No full textIntroduction to innovative sensor monitoring techniques applied to machining processses carried out on difficult-to-machine-materials, such as Ni base alloys, and decision making paradigms for surface integrity assessment, such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, hybrid systems. Advances, limitations and future developments in research and industrail applications
Hybrid Machine Tools
No full textMachine tools basic design principles, technology history and current state-of-the-art technology are described. History refers to the last two centuties; nevertheless, dramatic changes have taken place over the last ten years. A new classification of machines for removal processes was explained, with particular reference to the new concepts shown in recent industrial fairs, such as hybrid machines
Network of Excellence on Innovative Production Machines and Systems (NoE I*PROMS)
No full textI*PROMS NoE addresses innovative manufacturing research in an integrated manner in order to reshape this research area and overcome its current fragmentation. The Network integrates the activities of leading EU research institutions in the field of production research. These institutions possess wide-ranging and complementary human and material resources. I*PROMS is developing concepts, tools and techniques enabling the creation and operation of flexible, re-configurable, fault-tolerant and eco- and user-friendly manufacturing systems that can react to customer needs, environmental requirements, design inputs, and material / process / labour availability to manufacture high quality, cost-effective products. At present, I*PROMS comprises 30 member institutions representing 14 European countries. I*PROMS also includes associate partners to assist with the dissemination of results and spreading of excellence to research and user communities beyond the network
Sensor Monitoring Methods in the Machining of Low-Machinability Materials
No full textThis Seminar illustrates the development and implementation of sensor monitoring of machining operations including tool condition monitoring, unmanned machining, process control and, more recently, advanced topics in machining monitoring, innovative signal processing, sensor fusion and related applications. The Seminar reviews the recent contributions of research in these areas and provides an up-to-date comprehensive survey of sensor technologies, signal processing, and decision making strategies for process monitoring. Application examples to industrial processes including reconfigurable sensor systems are reported
Parallel and Distributed Intelligent Information and Data Processing for Self-Organising Production Systems
No full textThe Seminar focuses on self-organising production with distributed intelligence. It shows how SOPRO exploits the potential of Process-eGrains for an implementation of the principle of self-organization in the application field of industrial manufacturing. Products and manufacturing resources will be equipped with intelligent Process-eGrains which will deal with other partners in a manufacturing network and through the principle of self-organization could influence the process sequences independently of the production control level
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