{"title":"Assembly Time Modeling through Connective Complexity Metrics","authors":"James L. Mathieson, B. A. Wallace, J. Summers","doi":"10.1080/0951192X.2012.684706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2012.684706","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a model for predicting the assembly time of a system based on complexity metrics of the system architecture. A convention for modeling architecture is presented, followed by ten analyzed systems. These systems are subjected to complexity metrics developed for other applications. A model is developed based on a recognizable trend and a regression of that trend. The regression is then further refined based on its similarities to additional metrics other than that used in regression. The final model uses average path length, part count, and path length density to predict assembly time to within ±16% of that predicted by the Boothroyd and Dew Hurst design for assembly analysis method.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132549273","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":"Mechanism for Constructing the Dynamic Collision Avoidance Knowledge-Base by Machine Learning","authors":"Lina Li, Sheng-Yuan Yang, Wei Zhou, Guoquan Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.4","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning is the key technology for constructing a dynamic collision avoidance knowledge-base and realizing the Personifying Intelligent Decision-making for Vessel Collision Avoidance (short form for PIDVCA). Based on the aim and realization method of PIDVCA, this thesis puts forwards a Meta-Knowledge representation integrated method, which is carried by procedural knowledge, combined with the knowledge of the facts on basis of the database technology and the knowledge of the cause and effect on basis of the formation rule, integrated by the intelligent decision-making chart and tree or rule set, The mechanism for constructing a dynamic collision avoidance knowledge base by the integrated machine learning strategy are discussed by combination of collision avoidance simulation instance. Simulation results show that the dynamic collision avoidance knowledge-base can make the effects of the PIDVCA.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131721400","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":"Research on Service-Oriented Reconfigurable Business Collaboration Platform for Cluster Supply Chain","authors":"Zhan Jiang, W. Meng, Lanfen Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.42","url":null,"abstract":"Cluster supply chain is a kind of supply chain coupling with the industrial cluster, and its effective operation plays an important role in the promotion of industrial clusters. This paper presents a service-oriented solution to support the business cooperation among the enterprises via analyzing the complex business relationships and the features of the cluster supply chain. Furthermore, a reconfigurable cluster supply chain service platform is proposed with the details including the architecture. The platform realizes the service components reuse and the process reconfiguration by constructing the service components in different granularities with multiple forms and configuring on demand dynamically. Meanwhile, various services, applications and resources of the cluster supply chain are integrated into platform by using the web-service technology based on ESB. Finally, the platform is developed based on the proposed system architecture and the experimental results prove its effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127489442","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":"Environmentally-Friendly Nano-fluid Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) Meso-scale Grinding Process Using Nano-diamond Particles","authors":"Pil-Ho Lee, T. Nam, Chengjun Li, S. W. Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.27","url":null,"abstract":"To reduce environmental loads caused by full usage of cutting fluids, nano-fluids, mixtures of nano-scale particles and base fluids, have recently been applied to mechanical machining processes with minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) approach. This paper discusses the characteristics of nano-fluid MQL meso-scale grinding process in the miniaturized machine tool system that can significantly save energy and cost. Nano-diamond particles and paraffin oil are used for nano-fluid, and a series of nano-fluid MQL meso-scale grinding experiments are carried out. The experimental results show that nano-fluid MQL approach can significantly reduce grinding forces and surface roughness when compared with dry and pure MQL cases. In addition, smaller nano-diamond particles can be more beneficial to produce better ground surfaces.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"43 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130470654","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 and Planning ICT Strategy for Sustainable Development in Electrical/Electronics Goods Manufacture","authors":"K. Tseng","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.32","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental issues are playing an essential role in corporate and manufacturing strategies. International and domestic environmental regulations and laws are forcing many organisations to consider environmental impacts of all functions and business processes and products. In this paper, the environmental consciousness issues pertaining to ICT (information communication and technologies) trends, opportunities and applications for sustainable development are presented. A general strategic vision on how to implement and plan ICT strategy for sustainable development in electrical/electronic goods manufacture is also developed and discussed. Moreover, a number of research initiatives that need to be pursued are identified. The pursuit of these research initiatives will alleviate many of the barriers to adoption of environmentally conscious manufacturing strategies.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129677131","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":"Constraints Based Deformation","authors":"Wing-Shing Tang, K. Hui","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.24","url":null,"abstract":"There are various techniques for deforming three-dimensional objects in existing CAD systems. To maintain some user specified constraints in a deformation of a parametric and feature-based model is a new aspect in deformation modeling. This paper presents a constraints based deformation technique. Firstly, a deformed object is obtained by some common deformation techniques such as FFD, axial deformation. Secondly, parametric features are grouped into systems of primitive constraints based on user specification. Finally, parametric features are reconstructed by the use of optimization technique. The optimization is to minimize the changes in the deformed model subjected to all the provided constraints. This method allows deformations like FFD and axial deformation to be performed without destroying the original constraints in the model. In order to maintain some particular feature in a model, users may need to specify features with a combination of primitive constraints. This method combine the advantage of free-form modeling with feature based modeling system, and allows engineering design to be performed in a free-form manner.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114674632","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":"Manufactruability Analysis of Infeasible Features in Polygonal Models for Web-Based Rapid Prototyping","authors":"Yong Chen, Xiaoshu Xu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.34","url":null,"abstract":"Web-based online submission of computer aided design (CAD) models for prototype parts is getting popular among service bureaus and gaining wider acceptance among rapid prototyping users. In the web based rapid prototyping (RP), an instant quote needs to be generated for an arbitrary polygonal model (usually in STL format). Hence the manufacturability analysis of polygonal models is critical in automating the instant quoting process. In this paper two common problems are addressed including: (1) small features that are infeasible to be made by a RP process, and (2) cost analysis of a given polygonal model. We present two methods based on the analysis of offsetting results: (i) a fast approach of identifying infeasible features in order to provide an instant feedback to users, and (ii) an accurate approach of calculating the information of infeasible features for a given tool size in order to facilitate cost analysis. The related data structures and algorithms are presented. Both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132227411","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}
Essam Z. Namouz, J. Summers, Gregory M. Mocko, A. Obieglo
{"title":"Workshop for Identifying Assembly Time Savings: An OEM Empirical Study","authors":"Essam Z. Namouz, J. Summers, Gregory M. Mocko, A. Obieglo","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.55","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the procedure and recommendations resulting from an original equipment manufacturer empirical study on an assembly time savings workshop. The focus of the workshop was to reduce the assembly time of an automotive vehicle by reverse engineering a vehicle currently in production and applying design for assembly guidelines. The workshop was conducted at the OEM’s research and development laboratory in Germany and required a collaborative effort between the US manufacturing plant and the German design group. The organization, equipment needed, and method used to conduct the assembly workshop are discussed in detail. The outcomes of the empirical study include assembly time reductions as well as best practices for conducting a time savings workshop. Specific details about assembly time and time reduction are not included in this paper due to the proprietary nature of the project.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116148512","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":"Multi-agent-Based Negotiation Approach for Scheduling Jobs on Parallel Machines with Ready Times and Machine Preference","authors":"Ching-Jen Huang, L. Liao, Pao-An Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.38","url":null,"abstract":"The manufacturing processes of aluminum foil often included seven main steps and the electro-etching is critical step which usually has many parallel machines with three distinct voltage equipments. Therefore, the production scheduling is parallel-machine and its choices of eligibility. In this paper, an agent-based architecture is proposed to develop a parallel-machine scheduling application for this manufacturing environment. There are three types of agents in the proposed system. Each job/machine is viewed as a agent, named job/machine agent. To establish job allocations, job agents and machine agents have to bid interactively. Management agent plays as a system supervisor and coordinator to manage negotiation processes between job agents and machine agents to ensure the global objectives such as minimizing total jobs’ tardiness and flow time, balancing machines’ loading, and maximizing total revenue can be achieved. Eventually, experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The result shows that the proposed architecture provides a parallel eligible machines scheduling solutions with a better performance.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127694346","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}
Kun Wang, T. Mei, M. Luo, Jianghai Zhao, Xiaodong Ye
{"title":"Design and Implementation of a 6-DOF Robot Control System Based on CAN Fieldbus","authors":"Kun Wang, T. Mei, M. Luo, Jianghai Zhao, Xiaodong Ye","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2010.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2010.26","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design (hardware and software) and implementation of a control system for a 6-DOF robot. The motivation of the work is to explain the use of the architecture on available real-time distributed control systems. Based on the analysis of functions and configuration, we design a systemic modularized control structure with CAN field bus which is used to connect distributed hardware and software modules. The superiority of CAN field bus and how it has been implemented to construct control system coupled with electromechanical devices are described. Then the analysis gives the mechanical structural characteristics and corresponding control principle of the robot. Finally, an evaluation of the performance of the robotic control system is provided. The experiment with the prototype proves that both the accuracy and efficiency can be achieved simultaneously by the control system based on use of CAN field bus. It is believed that attributes observed in this control system can be used for automatic production, space exploration, treatment operation, etc.","PeriodicalId":233469,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115672785","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}