The challenge facing manufacturing today is one of providing the customer with greater product variety deliverable in … manufacturing process implemented in an automotive environment designed to address some of the key issues arising from this …

performances at system level (critical manufacturing tasks) where the dimensions and measurement of productivity, service, quality … production factors and their interconnection (such as efficiencies, capability, process flexibility and lead times) The set of … techniques impact on operating conditions and, through them, on performance at production system level are analysed. A paradigm …

infrastructure, such as electric power, oil, and gas production and distribution. Since their incapacitation or destruction would … program is to identify vulnerabilities and encourage the public and private sectors to work together to design secure control …

infrastructure, such as electric power, oil, and gas production and distribution. Since their incapacitation or destruction would … program is to identify vulnerabilities and encourage the public and private sectors to work together to design secure control …

policy from traditional to JIT always requires radical structural changes in a production line design. One typical example of … number of US and European firms consider adopting JIT concepts in manufacturing. However, the transfer of a manufacturing … these changes is uniform assembly which does not allow high variability in the production schedules. Consequently, major …