{"title":"The holonic enterprise: a model for Internet‐enabled global manufacturing supply chain and workflow management","authors":"M. Ulieru, R. Brennan, Scott S. Walker","doi":"10.1108/09576060210448125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210448125","url":null,"abstract":"Merges the latest results obtained by the holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) consortium with the latest developed standards for platform interoperability released by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) to propose a novel e‐business model: the holonic e‐enterprise (HE). The HE extends both the HMS and FIPA models. On one side it extends the holonic manufacturing paradigm with one top level, the inter‐enterprise one. On the other side it extends the multi‐agent system (MAS) paradigm to the hardware (physical machine) level.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"112 1","pages":"538-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86220779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robotic grasping: gripper designs, control methods and grasp configurations – a review of research","authors":"N. Boubekri, P. Chakraborty","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442978","url":null,"abstract":"The application of robots to industrial problems often requires grasping and manipulation of the work piece. The robot is able to perform a task adequately only when it is assigned proper tooling and adequate methods of grasping and handling work pieces. The design of such a task requires an in‐depth knowledge of several interrelated subjects including: gripper design, force, position, stiffness and compliance control and grasp configurations. In this paper, we review the research finding on these subjects in order to present in a concise manner, which can be easily accessed by the designers of robot task, the information reported by the researchers, and identify based on the review, future research directions in these areas.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":"520-531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84540535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining scoring method and fuzzy expert systems approach to supplier assessment: a case study","authors":"C. Kwong, W. Ip, Joseph W. K. Chan","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442671","url":null,"abstract":"Very often, manufacturing companies have been faced with the problem of assessment and selection of suppliers for their product development. Some methods and techniques have been developed to assist these companies in performing the assessment. However, these methods and techniques lack tge capability to deal with the instrumental and conceptual uncertainties that are involved in the supplier assessment and selection. Fuzzy expert system is an alternative approach from which the heuristics and knowledge of supplier assessment can be captured and the impreciseness and uncertainties due to the human subjectivity, that are common in the process of the supplier assessment, can be handled. In this paper, a combined scoring method with fuzzy expert systems approach is introduced to perform the supplier assessment. With the use of the fuzzy concept, the error due to human judgement in the scoring method could be minimized. First, current methods and techniques of supplier assessment are reviewed in this paper. There follows the description of a case study of combined scoring method and fuzzy expert systems approach to supplier assessment. Some results of the prototype system trial‐run are discussed in the final part of this paper.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"512-519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87016568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limiting design criterion analysis of a relay type production line","authors":"R. Quintana, Gray Wayne Skelton","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442635","url":null,"abstract":"This research provides an ergonomic analysis of the bucket brigade production line and identifies the potential ergonomic risk factors that may result from the utilization of this production technique. Biomechanical and physiological data of the workers was collected while they worked on the traditional and bucket brigade production lines. The research identifies that while the production level of the bucket brigade system may be higher than the traditional production line, its procedure required significantly less energy expenditure by the operators. However, the difficulty and amount of work experienced by the last worker in the bucket brigade line may cause productivity problems and promote a high turnover rate at that station, and thus is the limiting design criterion of the bucket brigade production methodology from a human factors perspective.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":"459-470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78485019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating EI/TQM efforts for performance improvement: a model","authors":"K. Pun, R. Gill","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442626","url":null,"abstract":"Many empirical studies verify that a positive correlation exists between employee involvement (EI) and total quality management (TQM) practices. Substantial EI/TQM efforts are beginning to appear in organizations of different sizes and business nature, but there is little general agreement concerning the versatility of EI/TQM planning and implementation. This paper examines the prerequisites of the EI/TQM integration, and proposes a generic EI/TQM implementation model that assists organizations to safeguard their improvement efforts. The construct of the proposed model is built in line with the system frameworks and assessment criteria of the Baldrige Award. The paper also elaborates the essential ingredients of the model, and proposes a 14‐step guideline that facilitates the EI and TQM implementation with organizational strategies. An implementation case of EI/TQM efforts is presented along with a discussion of the applicability of the model.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"447-458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77703701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A lotsize reduction model for just‐in‐time manufacturing systems","authors":"Jiaqin Yang, R. Deane","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442644","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of reducing product lotsizes in converting traditional job shops into just‐in‐time (JIT) type manufacturing systems has been addressed in the literature. This paper presents a lotsize reduction model for closed stochastic production systems. The model is formulated based on an M/G/c queuing lotsize model. Product lotsize choice is related to all major components of job flow time: waiting time in queue, batch processing time, batch moving time, and finished goods warehousing time. The research is motivated by the fact that an optimal lotsize solution that minimizes only average job waiting time in the shop may not be optimal when the effects of job batch processing time, batch moving time, and batch warehousing time are also considered. There is no general closed form solution to the model due to the complexity of its nonlinear formulation. Based on the unique properties of the model, heuristic solution procedures are developed. The research demonstrates opportunities for shop managers to significantly reduce product lotsizes while minimizing total operating cost.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"27 1","pages":"471-488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84369980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy analysis approach for part‐machine grouping in cellular manufacturing systems","authors":"A. Al-Ahmari","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442653","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many accepted clustering techniques, the fuzzy clustering approaches have been developed over the last decades. These approaches have been applied to many areas in manufacturing systems. In this paper, a fuzzy clustering approach is proposed for selecting machine cells and part families in cellular manufacturing systems. This fuzzy approach offers a special advantage over existing clustering approaches as it presents the degree of membership of the machine or part associated with each machine cell or part family allowing users flexibility in formulating machine cells and part families. The proposed algorithm is extended and validated using numerical examples to demonstrate its application in cellular manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"489-497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84448517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Ketan, M. A. Al-Bassam, M. B. Adel, Ibrahim A. Rawabdeh
{"title":"Modelling integration of CAD and inspection planning of simple element features","authors":"H. Ketan, M. A. Al-Bassam, M. B. Adel, Ibrahim A. Rawabdeh","doi":"10.1108/09576060210442662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210442662","url":null,"abstract":"Concurrent design and manufacturing is widely accepted as essential for obtaining an economically conceivable design solution for industrial production. Nevertheless the development of a viable computer‐aided inspection planning (CAIP) using CAD as input for effective NC‐measuring data preparation has not yet been successful. This paper introduces an approach to direct integration between CAD and CAIP by developing a feature‐based computer aided design/inspection planning (FB‐CAIP) system. The FB‐CAIP system contains a computer‐internal model of a product that contains sufficient information to guide the direct generation of NC code of the inspection activity. The developed small prototype system integrates knowledge‐based inspection planning with feature‐based CAD system for an automatic CNC measuring program generation of prismatic parts.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":"498-511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83355279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SAE 8C corporate culture model for business competitiveness","authors":"W. Ng","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436632","url":null,"abstract":"It has been claimed that the prosperity of an organization does not lie in its tough management program or management tools, but in its cultural elements rooted in an organization and its distinctive corporate culture. Asks how organizations can fully inspire the passion of all employees and deploy their strengths and talents and what organizations can do to assist employees in pursuing their career path. In order to survive and thrive, any organizations, independent of their size, should form their own beliefs, values and work ethics. Presents the SAE 8C corporate culture model, which has a strong base of ancient Chinese wisdom of The Analects of Confucius. This model influences the employee step‐by‐step in a progressive way and has four levels: infancy, childhood, adulthood, and parenthood. Describes also another add‐on self‐initiated continuous benchmarking process, the SAE 6C self‐actualization, used for further self‐advancement.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"134 1","pages":"375-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73970231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing strategies successfully","authors":"Petri Aaltonen, Heini Ikävalko","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436669","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the key findings of a study on strategy implementation. A qualitative study of 298 interviews was conducted in 12 service organizations. In the paper, the key findings are introduced, and the challenges of strategic communication and action, the identification of and support for strategic actors, and structure and systems aligned with strategy, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":" 4","pages":"415-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91414071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}