Additive manufacturing (AM) is emerging as an important manufacturing process and a key
technology for enabling innovative product development. Design for additive manufacturing …

The materials and manufacturing processes are evolving very rapidly subject to today's high
performance, shorter lead times, and high part complexity needs. With over 80,000 …

Process knowledge is of considerable significance to the digitalization and intelligentization
of the manufacturing industry. Current research on the process knowledge representation of …

Offsite construction techniques continue to receive considerable attention in
academic/research discourse. Whilst discourse in seminal literature critique the positive and …

This paper introduces a novel modelling approach to geometric skeleton computation
enabling concurrent product engineering and assembly sequence planning. Current …

Maintenance is one of the key drivers for future company success, due to the fact that these
kinds of operations are strictly related to human labor cost, an expensive factor for western …

Formation of products platforms is carried out during the planning stage and very often
separately from the planning of corresponding assembly lines. There is a dearth of literature …

Featured Application The assessment and modeling of manufacturing systems for their
management and control, considering all the related areas, flows, and factors involved in …

Additive Manufacturing can produce three dimensional complex products based on the
virtual CAD model. This new manufacturing method brings new possibilities in design and …

Modular construction has been reported to lead to a number of advantages when contrasted
with conventional construction approaches, including time and cost savings, along with …