... Shoes Manufacturing systems Manufacturing industries With technological advancement the industrial system becomes smoother, efficient, reliable but more complex. Such systems with more complexity needs continuous monitoring, so that they may be available in working condition for maximum...

... concurrently. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Electrical engineering Manufacturing systems This paper discusses a case study involving the speed‐load characteristics of HS‐15250 type (DC series) traction motors being manufactured for use in Indian Railways. Maintaining...

... were not considered for further analysis and excluded them from the final items used for measurement constructs. Mazharul Islam can be contacted at: mazharul.islam@rmit.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Manufacturing systems Performance management Small to medium‐sized...

... control Fuzzy logic Neural nets Algorithmic languages Manufacturing systems Reliability engineering has attracted many researchers due to their importance in variety of systems (Kumar, 1991 ; Adamyan and David, 2002 ; Aneziris and Papazoglou, 2004). A considerable amount of work has been...

... that the proposed approach is viable. Originality/value The paper describes a complex, real‐life inspection management situation, develops a rigorous model‐based solution approach, and carefully demonstrates its viability. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Semiconductors Manufacturing systems...

... Publishing Limited 2010 Performance measures Production processes Manufacturing systems Process analysis The information gathered from the performance evaluation of production processes and manufacturing systems lead directors and managers to take better decisions about how to manage...

... Manufacturing systems Production planning and control Case studies Information used in manufacturing planning and control (MPC) processes is shared between customer and supplier, or internally, in order to facilitate the tasks of the MPC system, to fulfil demand by using a minimum of resources...

.... Manufacturing systems Stress (materials) Strength of materials Exponential distribution Product reliability Equation 4 Equation 5 Equation 6 Equation 7 Equation 8 Equation 9 Table I Strength‐reliability of an item...

... Simulation Manufacturing systems There is little apparent interest in the literature on the interaction between manufacturing and quality control systems. van der Bij and van Ekert (1999) state in this context that “no theory about the interaction phenomena has been developed”. Some elements...

..., 1996). Individual constructs were therefore separately subjected to a Principal Axis Factoring (PAF) analysis with varimax rotation, see Table II . Supply and demand Suppliers Total quality management Manufacturing systems China The demand chain is a consumer‐oriented network...

... for applying the mnemonic rule that helps us in constructing the differential equations governing the butter‐oil processing plant. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Manufacturing systems Modelling Markov processes Runge‐Katta methods Maintenance reliability The reliability...

.... Equation 13 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Manufacturing systems Reproducibility Quality management Gauge variability plays a key role on quality improvement for the industry. Only a gauge with acceptable repeatability and reproducibility, the adequacy of a product's...

... “luxury” pick‐up trucks was that relatively little differentiation was considered to exist in this sector of the market. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Quality improvement Continuous improvement Manufacturing systems Simulation Pricing Thailand In a manufacturing...

... methodology like any other aforementioned improvement initiatives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Various steps of Six Sigma framework are outlined below: Quality programmes Manufacturing systems Myths Six‐Sigma process improvement methodology has been accepted...

... solution. Therefore, it represents the average values between availability, cost and design performance. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Optimization techniques Maintenance Manufacturing systems The importance of designing reliable systems, which normally present high availability...

... in milling field for human consumption flour is showed in the paper. Failure mode effect analysis Fuzzy logics Manufacturing systems Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) methodology (see, for example, Holmberg and Folkeson, 1991 ; O'Connor, 1981) originated as a formal...

...R. Calabria; G. Pulcini; M. Rapone The technological level achieved by manufacturing systems in recent years has caused an exponential enlargement of problems to be faced by management, such as cost minimisation, reliability and maintainability allocation, diagnostic system design. A newly...