The evolution of manufacturing systems, influenced by changes along four axes-products,
technology, business strategies and production paradigms-is presented. Adoption of human …

Optimisation of factories, a cornerstone of production engineering for the past half century,
relies on formulating the challenges with limited degrees of freedom. In this paper …

Industry 4.0 promotes the utilization of new exponential technologies such as additive
manufacturing in responding to different manufacturing challenges. Among these, the …

In this study, a genetic algorithm-based laser beam (LB) path optimization method is
presented to improve laser-based additive manufacturing (LBAM). To emulate the LBAM …

Elements, including market demand, client requirements, and technological advancement of
a product family in the current global competition, greatly influence the evolution of a product …

Forming product platforms is an effective strategy to offer products variety economically. The
short products life span and new variants pose a challenge to designing platforms, which …

In the era of mass customization, customer demand is fluctuating recurrently. To keep pace
with this situation, the manufacturer wants to offer a bundle of products in a cost-effective …

The incorporation of new technologies and materials, as well as the rapid evolution of
products, makes it necessary to guide the product design and development process from bio …

In order to realize unified deployment and system planning of various types of information
and diverse needs, the author proposes an educational information management platform …

Product platforms consider an effective strategy to empower mass customization (MC) in a
reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) to have the capacity to reconfigure the …