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Showing papers in "Procedia CIRP in 2013"


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TL;DR: In this article, the development of the paradigms of manufacturing, including mass production, mass customization and the emerging paradigm of personalization, is discussed and the role of the consumer in each paradigm is compared.

361 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the state-of-the-art in electrochemical and electro discharge machining processes is reviewed, which reflect the state of the art in academic and industrial research and applications.

310 citations


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TL;DR: A critical review on the energy efficiency of important manufacturing processes is presented in this article, where relevant conventional and non-conventional processes, utilized in the three major industrial sectors of aeronautics, automotive and white goods are briefly discussed.

168 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the surface integrity of wire electrical discharge machining (W-EDM) of Inconel 718 is investigated. And the results show that the EDMed surface topography shows dominant coral reef microstructures at high discharge energy, while random micro voids are dominant at low discharge energy.

154 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a literature study has been carried out, aimed at identifying the relevant principles of lean leadership, and a subsequent survey reveals the application of the lean leadership and points out future possibilities for improvement.

143 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of energy efficiency approaches, focusing in both production and machine tool level and how these two can be integrated together, identifying the major barriers from both technology and cultural point of view.

143 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, context-dependent behavioural aspects and implications related to the human stakeholders are delimitated and the deficits arising from an insufficient communication among stakeholders in SCPS are analyzed by means of a simulation experiment.

134 citations


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TL;DR: Results show that the BioCell Printing system produces scaffolds with regular and reproducible architecture, presenting no toxicity and enhancing cell attachment and proliferation and the addition of PLA to PCL scaffolds strongly improves the biomechanical performance of the constructs.

134 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis techniques for wind turbine gearboxes has been carried out and the challenges and opportunities are identified to guide future research in improving the accuracy and ability of condition-monitoring and prognosis systems.

132 citations


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TL;DR: A systematic approach to further develop quasi-real, effective learning environments in the field of manufacturing systems is conceived, so competency-oriented Learning Factories meeting the industries’ requirements can be implemented with the use of fewer input resources and an increased success in applied competencies in real situations.

130 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of seven process parameters including pulse width, servo reference voltage, pulse current, and wire tension on process performance parameters (such as cutting speed, wire rupture and surface integrity) has been applied.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the results of feed rate as a function of current density for an ECM sinking operation with a cylindrical tool electrode and external flushing are compared to the theoretical dissolution behavior according to Faraday's law.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the design of experiments and computer assisted casting simulation techniques are combined to analyze the sand related and methoding related defects in green sand casting, an attempt has been made to obtain the optimal settings of the moulding sand and mould related process parameters of green sand cast process of the selected ductile iron cast component.

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TL;DR: An optimization paradigm based on GA for the determination of the cutting parameters in machining operations is proposed in this article, where the GA has been used as an optimal solution finder for finding optimal cutting parameters during a turning process.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic analysis of current and future systems and their components is made focusing on adaptive control systems implementation into manufacturing processes, and the differences between the available methods, architectures and the corresponding equipment are identified and evaluated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of human capital skills for industry's competitiveness is discussed, providing an overview of the current situation in different world regions, and the need for young people to be enlightened about the exciting character of manufacturing.

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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of pre-process material texture on interlaminar bonding, secure fiber positioning through laser machined channels, and freeform electrical circuitry integration is discussed.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the issues and opportunities for the application of topology optimization methods for additive manufacturing (AM) processes, which enable the production of functional parts with complex geometries, multi-materials and individualized mass production.

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TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary study of the suitability of existing lean methods for the application in this type of organization is presented, combined with an industrial case study in a small enterprise to analyse the difficulties in the implementation stage and to identify the critical success factors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a methodical framework based on data mining for predicting the physical quality of intermediate products in interlinked manufacturing processes in rolling mill case study, and showed how the combination of supervised and unsupervised data mining methods can be applied to identify most striking operational patterns, promising quality-related features and production parameters.

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TL;DR: In this article, a methodology to produce hydrogel films, composed of alginate and Aloe vera, for wound healing and drug delivery applications was described, and the films were prepared through the solvent-casting method and subsequently submitted to an additional cross-linking step to improve their properties.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the manufacturing constraints of the Electron Beam Melting process, a metallic additive manufacturing process in order to issue recommendations to the designers, focusing on some key manufacturing constraints, the powder removing and the necessity of supporting structures.

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Wansheng Zhao1, Lin Gu1, Hui Xu1, Lin Li1, Xiaoli Xiang1 
TL;DR: In this paper, a novel low cost, high efficiency material removal process namely the Blasting Erosion Arc Machining (BEAM) is proposed and implemented to perform bulk removing of alloys including the difficult-to-cut materials.

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TL;DR: The concept of an integrated framework to support the interoperability between digital factory tools and shows how it can benefit the business processes along the whole factory life-cycle is presented.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a new methodology to inversely identify the flow stress data in orthogonal cutting, which was originally developed at the ISM of the University of Kentucky, USA, and the WZL of RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-physical approach for modeling the ECM material removal process by coupling all relevant conservation equations is presented, and the resulting simulation model is validated by the example of a compressor blade.

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TL;DR: In this article, a relation between the minimum depth of the damaged zone, the fibre orientation at the machined edge and the fibre properties was derived using elementary bending models. But the analysis underlines the existence of only one type of surface ply delamination i.e. fibre protrusions and fibre delamination always occur together.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a novel open-source and low-cost 3D printer machine, called RepRap, was employed to fabricate biocompatible scaffolds, which was considered a versatile, inexpensive, flexible, and simple machine to efficiently fabricate scaffolds.

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TL;DR: The state of the art of the most important current projects concerning the two main categories of robots offering a solution of automation, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and rolling on wires robots (RWR) are presented to create a simple roadmap that can guide researchers and industries in the implementation of a rigorous live line inspection strategy.

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TL;DR: Important key performance indicators for assessing the delivery and delivery planning of product-related industrial services and their importance for measuring planning performance and delivery performance are presented.