Hyunbo Cho

TL;DR: The concept of agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a structured model for deadlock detection, avoidance and resolution caused by part flow in manufacturing systems is presented, where a system status graph can be constructed for the parts currently in the system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the problems and models necessary to develop an intelligent workstation controller (IWC) at the middle level of a shop floor control system (SFCS), which is responsible for selecting a specific process routing, allocating resources, scheduling and coordinating activities across the equipment, monitoring the progress of activities, detecting and recovering from errors, and preparing reports.

TL;DR: In this article, a shop floor control system (SFCS) consisting of three hierarchical control levels (shop, workstation, and equipment) is described, where each controller plans, schedules, and executes the activities necessary to process an order.

TL;DR: A similarity update method that uses an iterative message passing procedure and a novel modulation method and an accuracy metric are presented in order to minimize the predictive accuracy error and to evenly distribute predicted ratings over true rating scales.