- Best Manufacturing Practices [IA][Direct] -
Information on "Best Manufacturing Practices" identified in industry, government, and academia through a survey and benchmarking process.
- CGDM [IA][Direct] -
An interdisciplinary research initiative and an industry/government/university partnership to develop linkages between manufacturing and design and their environmental effects and to integrate engineering information, management practices and government policy-making
- Continuous Casting Consortium [IA][Direct] -
The Consortium develops comprehensive mathematical models of the continuous casting of steel slabs.
- Crazy About Constraints! [IA][Direct] -
Resources and information about the Theory of Constraints, the Thinking Processes, Synchronous Manufacturing, and other techniques developed by Eli Goldratt.
- Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan - University Laboratory in Automated Production Research (LURPA) [IA][Direct] -
Main topics: Computer Aided Tolerancing, Automatic Design of Process Planning, Design of Advanced Manufacturing System, Optimization and Control... (Publications available)
- Esprit 6805 Complan [IA][Direct] -
The page describes developments and information about a European project dealing with manufacturing planning (CAPP) and scheduling for small batch production, while preserving flexibility.
- IMS: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems [IA][Direct] -
Official information on the international intelligent manufacturing systems rsearch program.
- Mechanical Reverse Engineering [IA][Direct] -
Conversion of 3-D laser scan data to CAD formats.
- Michigan Technological University - Engineering Mechanics [IA][Direct]
- Outperforming Kanban in Lean Manufacturing [IA][Direct] -
Presents new manufacturing control policies that meet service requirements at lower inventories than kanban.
- Product REALIZATION Consortium [IA][Direct] -
Formed with a NSF/TRP 3-year cooperative agreement for $3.75 million to initiate a reform of engineering education by providing the opportunity for students to design and manufacture products.
- Reverse Engineering of Mechanical Parts [IA][Direct] -
Part-to-CAD reverse engineering emphasizing modeling accuracy and feature-based representations.
- Sandia Hexapod Testbed [IA][Direct]
- Shape Deposition Manufacturing [IA][Direct]
- Theory of Constraints (TOC) [IA][Direct] -
An introduction to the Theory of Constraints (TOC) management disciplines, with links and references to professional society (APICS) and other resources for more information.
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