Search Results - "Freiheit, Theodor"

Smart Manufacturing and Intelligent Manufacturing: A Comparative Review by Wang, Baicun, Tao, Fei, Fang, Xudong, Liu, Chao, Liu, Yufei, Freiheit, Theodor

“…The application of intelligence to manufacturing has emerged as a compelling topic for researchers and industries around the world. However, different…”
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Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Framework and Impact Assessment by Li, Xingyu, Wang, Baicun, Liu, Chao, Freiheit, Theodor, Epureanu, Bogdan I.

“…Pandemics like COVID-19 have created a spreading and ever-higher healthy threat to the humans in the manufacturing system which incurs severe disruptions and…”
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An effective heuristic for adaptive control of job sequences subject to variation in processing times by Li, Wei, Freiheit, Theodor I.

“…Variation in sequential task processing times is common in manufacturing systems. This type of disturbance challenges most scheduling methods since they cannot…”
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Incorporating customer personalization preferences in open product architecture design by Tan, Changbai, Chung, Haseung, Barton, Kira, Jack Hu, S., Freiheit, Theodor

“…•This method jointly optimizes the selection of product variety, module variants, and personalized module configurations.•Cost-effective product…”
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A discrete state Markov chain model and decomposition solution method for the transient behaviour of buffered long serial transfer lines by Freiheit, Theodor

“…As demand for greater manufacturing efficiency over shorter production runs in serial manufacturing lines increase, models for transient behaviour are required…”
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Intelligent welding system technologies: State-of-the-art review and perspectives by Wang, Baicun, Hu, S. Jack, Sun, Lei, Freiheit, Theodor

“…•Review the state-of-the-art of the development of intelligent welding systems (IWS), its concepts, and its system architectures.•Comprehensively review the…”
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The effect of work content imbalance and its interaction with scheduling method on sequential flow line performance by Freiheit, Theodor, Li, Wei

“…Uneven workflow in serial flow lines is common when job work content varies. Unfortunately, work content imbalance between stations or between jobs degrades…”
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Feature-based quality classification for ultrasonic welding of carbon fiber reinforced polymer through Bayesian regularized neural network by Sun, Lei, Hu, S. Jack, Freiheit, Theodor

“…•A novel feature selection method is introduced to better differentiate between multiple quality classes.•An optimal set of significant signal features…”
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Towards intelligent welding systems from a HCPS perspective: A technology framework and implementation roadmap by Wang, Baicun, Li, Yang, Freiheit, Theodor

“…A framework and implementation roadmap for an intelligent welding system (IWS) is proposed from the human-cyber-physical systems (HCPS) perspective of…”
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A waste relationship model and center point tracking metric for lean manufacturing systems by Gopinath, Sainath, Freiheit, Theodor I.

“…Lean manufacturing is about eliminating waste, which requires the creation of waste metrics that are tracked in order to create the conditions for its…”
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Early event detection in a deep-learning driven quality prediction model for ultrasonic welding by Wang, Baicun, Li, Yang, Luo, Ying, Li, Xingyu, Freiheit, Theodor

“…•Novel application of an LSTM deep neural network to identify time at process convergence to final predicted quality class.•Model demonstrates high…”
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Integrating optimal process and supplier selection in personalised product architecture design by Tan, Changbai, Barton, Kira, Hu, S. Jack, Freiheit, Theodor

“…A key enabler for personalised product design is an open product architecture that allows the integration of personalised modules to create unique products…”
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Transfer lines with multi-machine stages and non-deterministic processing time: transient performance analysis and control by Zeng, Zhigang, Brennan, Robert William, Freiheit, Theodor

“…Serial transfer lines with parallel machines in each stage are now a fairly common manufacturing system. However, its analysis and predictive-reactive control…”
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A lever concept integrated with simple rules for flow shop scheduling by Li, Wei, Freiheit, Theodor, Miao, Enming

“…The development of more efficient and better performing priority dispatching rules (PDRs) for production scheduling is relevant to modern flow shop scheduling…”
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The impact of corporate culture on manufacturing system design by Koren, Yoram, Gu, Xi, Freiheit, Theodor

“…The work-culture of an industrial firm has a profound impact on the selection of the right production system configuration when cost, throughput, and…”
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Estimating good design attributes from generalized drivers to provide early assistance to design requirements analysis by Zhao, Lei, Freiheit, Theodor

“…PurposeThis paper aims to examine the perceptions of good design attributes and propose a model to estimate their relative importance through fundamental…”
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Quality detection and classification for ultrasonic welding of carbon fiber composites using time-series data and neural network methods by Sun, Lei, Tan, Changbai, Hu, S. Jack, Dong, Pingsha, Freiheit, Theodor

“…•Novel use of copula Monte Carlo simulation to supplement time-series process signal data sets for neural network training.•Demonstrated high quality…”
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Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Framework and Impact Assessment by Xingyu Li, Baicun Wang, Chao Liu, Theodor Freiheit, Bogdan I.Epureanu

“…Pandemics like COVID-19 have created a spreading and ever-higher healthy threat to the humans in the manufacturing system which incurs severe disruptions and…”
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A systematic methodology for the modularization of manufacturing systems during early design by Rossi, Federico, Arfelli, Sabrina, Hu, S. Jack, Tolio, Tullio Antonio Maria, Freiheit, Theodor

“…A methodology is proposed to provide a guided process for modularization of manufacturing system components within the broader design process. The application…”
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Dynamic scheduling in flexible assembly system based on timed Petri nets model by Zhang, Weijun, Freiheit, Theodor, Yang, Huashu

“…This paper investigates a scheduling model for optimal production sequencing in a flexible assembly system. The system features a set of machines working…”
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