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Production engineering
About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.
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20 May 2014
TL;DR: This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems and also depicts technologies and architectures as well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on these.
Abstract: This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures, intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems. It provides a clear view on their applicability to the management and automation of manufacturing and process industries. It offers a holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their industrial usage and also depicts technologies and architectures as well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on these. By providing a careful balance between the theory and the practical aspects, this book has been authored by several experts from academia and industry, thereby offering a valuable understanding of the vision, the domain, the processes and the results of the research. It has several illustrations and tables to clearly exemplify the concepts and results examined in the text and these are supported by four real-life case-studies. We are witnessing rapid advances in the industrial automation, mainly driven by business needs towards agility and supported by new disruptive advances both on the software and hardware side, as well as the cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information and communication technology-driven approaches in traditional industrial automation and control systems. This book is intended for technology managers, application designers, solution developers, engineers working in industry, as well as researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of industrial automation, industrial informatics and production engineering.
248 citations
01 Jun 1988
TL;DR: The aim of this invited survey is to introduce Computer science/Petri nets specialists to the basic system level issues brought up by the development of Flexible Manufacturing and how Petri nets are used to aid the production engineers in their work.
Abstract: The aim of this invited survey is to introduce Computer science/Petri nets specialists to the basic system level issues brought up by the development of Flexible Manufacturing and how Petri nets are used to aid the production engineers in their work. After some terminology concerning production engineering, the hierarchical decision and control level is briefly reviewed. Finally, the role and the presence of nets in CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) and in CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) for FMSs (Flexible Manufacturing Systems) are considered. From the design point of view, the use of nets have many advantages in modeling, qualitative analysis, performance evaluation and code generation. From the control of the plant perspective, scheduling on nets models, the coordination of the plant (global and partial) and the presence of nets in the local control level are discussed.
246 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the literature on organization level technology and manufacturing strategy, and compared the FMT organization to mass production organization on several key dimensions, and proposed positions to guide future research and management practice.
Abstract: Recently developed flexible manufacturing technologies (FMT) offer managers new strategic opportunities. After summarizing the literature on organization level technology and manufacturing strategy, FMT organization is described and compared to mass production organization on several key dimensions. Propositions are offered to guide future research and management practice.
242 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe current developments in the field of production networks along with techniques and methods for their operation and management, as well as their application in the manufacturing sector.
240 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a new paradigm aiming at going beyond traditional six-sigma approaches is proposed, which is extremely relevant in technology intensive and emerging strategic manufacturing sectors, such as aeronautics, automotive, energy, medical technology, micro-manufacturing, electronics and mechatronics.
Abstract: Manufacturing companies are continuously facing the challenge of operating their manufacturing processes and systems in order to deliver the required production rates of high quality products, while minimizing the use of resources. Production quality is proposed in this paper as a new paradigm aiming at going beyond traditional six-sigma approaches. This new paradigm is extremely relevant in technology intensive and emerging strategic manufacturing sectors, such as aeronautics, automotive, energy, medical technology, micro-manufacturing, electronics and mechatronics. Traditional six-sigma techniques show strong limitations in highly changeable production contexts, characterized by small batch productions, customized, or even one-of-a-kind products, and in-line product inspections. Innovative and integrated quality, production logistics and maintenance design, management and control methods as well as advanced technological enablers have a key role to achieve the overall production quality goal. This paper revises problems, methods and tools to support this paradigm and highlights the main challenges and opportunities for manufacturing industries in this context.
238 citations