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The traditional, fragmented approach to increasing manufacturing efficiency has resulted in "islands of automation" in our factories. Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is the goal of tying together these islands into ...

There is a critical need for establishing CIM at the facility level, to complement the research done in manufacturing integration, which has concentrated so far on flexible manufacturing cells, robotics and other material ...

The unique requirements in a make-to-order manufacturing environment dealing with long lead time products cannot be satisfied by either MRP or Network Analysis systems alone, but necessitate a combination of features of ...

To build an interface between product design and manufacturing execution modules is the first phase to achieving Computer Integrated Manufacturing for the factory of the future. A model of the Computer Aided Design ...

Very few Mathematical Tools are available to study the dynamics of discrete manufacturing systems. Petri Nets, and in particular a special type of Petri Nets called Timed Event Graphs, seem to be of special interest for ...

A new method (Computerized LAyout Solutions using Simulated annealing - CLASS) that considers the inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems in a cellular manufacturing environment is presented. It addresses the relative ...

This paper is devoted to the behavior, evaluation and management of non-cyclic discrete systems in general and manufacturing systems in particular. We introduce a special type of Petri nets called CFIOs (Conflict-Free nets ...

Full control and management of information flow in manufacturing has not yet been achieved, mainly because of the data inconsistencies and lack of established functional relationships among different manufacturing application ...

This paper considers the problem of scheduling a given set of jobs on a single machine in order to minimize the total weighted earliness and tardiness costs. The scheduling horizon is divided into elementary periods; jobs ...

This paper focuses on the development of a methodology within a software environment for automating the rule based implementation of specifications of integrated manufacturing information systems. The specifications are ...