Waguih ElMaraghy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of managing product variety throughout the entire product life cycle, and the effective co-development of variants and their manufacturing systems to ensure economic sustainability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the complexity of the design process, products, manufacturing, and business, and discuss the nature and sources of complexity in these areas, and complexity modeling and management approaches are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the CIRP community's collective efforts to establish such a scientific foundation according to the “Observation → Hypothesis → Theory” development pathway are reported.

TL;DR: Learning factories present a promising environment for education, training and research, especially in manufacturing related areas which are a main driver for wealth creation in any nation as mentioned in this paper. But, while n...

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology to systematically determine the product and process complexity for any manufacturing environment was introduced - a rapid Manufacturing Complexity Assessment Tool (MCAT), which is based on three elements: total quantity of information, diversity of information and the information content which corresponds to the effort to produce a feature within a product.