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Shaw C. Feng, Yuan Feng, Xiang Zhong, Wenhui Fan, Jingshan Li
This paper is devoted to studying scheduling policies in flexible serial lines with two Bernoulli machines and dedicated finite buffers. Priority, cyclic and work-in-process (WIP)-based scheduling policies are investigated. For small scale systems, exact
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Moneer Helu, Timothy A. Sprock
The increasing decentralization of manufacturing has contributed to the growing interest in scalable distributed manufacturing systems (DMSs). The emerging body of work from smart manufacturing, Industrie 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and
Ging Jeng, Honglei Li, Yanzhou Liu, Yongkang Liu, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Shuvra Bhattacharyya
Wireless communications technology has the potential to provide major benefits in lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of factory automation (FA) systems. However, design of FA systems that employ wireless networks involves stringent constraints
Latest innovations and developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as well as Operational Technologies (OTs) are changing manufacturing forever. Ideas such as Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are attempting to
Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Kang B. Lee, Yongkang Liu, Jeanne T. Quimby, Catherine A. Remley
This document is intended to be a practical guide used by engineers and managers facilitating them to go through the process of defining the objectives of their wireless systems and examining the environments where the wireless systems are to be deployed
Carla Martin-Villalba, Alfonso Urquia, Guodong Shao
The Tennessee Eastman process is a typical industrial process that consists of five main process units: a two-phase reactor where an exothermic reaction occurs, a separator, a stripper, a compressor, and a mixer. This is a nonlinear open-loop unstable
Self-similar architectures can simplify some design and interoperability challenges for smart manufacturing and logistics systems. To be effective, self-similar architectures for these domains must extend existing models of self-similar controller
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, hosted a "Workshop on Advanced Monitoring, Diagnostic, and Prognostic Technologies" at the conclusion of the ASME Manufacturing
Jeanne T. Quimby, Richard Candell, Catherine A. Remley, David R. Novotny, Joseph Diener, Peter B. Papazian, Alexandra Curtin, Galen H. Koepke
Manufacturers are increasingly choosing wireless platforms to replace wired ones due to their ease of installation, upgrade, and reconfigurability. Reliable and secure real-time performance of wireless platforms is technically challenging because wireless
This paper is devoted to studying the performance of multi-product two-machine lines with Bernoulli reliability machines and dedicated finite buffers under priority, cyclic and work-in-process (WIP)-based scheduling policies. For small scale systems, exact
Recently, the concept of smart manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm, with which manufacturers can pursue their competitiveness in the market. Such a paradigm can be viewed as the convergence of Information & Communication Technologies with human and
In concert with the advances in information and communication technology and its applications to manufacturing environments, physical entities in factories are acquiring more intelligence via the integration with cyber systems. This integration brings
Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy
This paper develops a grey-box modeling approach that combines manufacturing knowledge-based (white-box) models with statistical (black-box) metamodels to improve model reusability and predictability. A white-box model can utilize different types of
Background: Wireless technology has great appeals to many manufacturers, in this case industrial automation systems, which include process control, discrete manufacturing, safety systems, and building automation. Applying wireless sensing and control
Shannan R. Williams, Melissa Taylor, Anuj Mehta, Irland Jeffrey
Forensic science laboratories and law enforcement agencies have increasingly used automated identification technology (AIT), such as barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID), to track and manage forensic evidence, firearms, and personnel. AIT
We present experimental measurements and analysis of RF interference between a passive RFID system and a generic frequency hopping communications system in the 902 928 MHz ISM radio band. Interference in both directions is considered, RFID to
Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Daniel G. Kuester
Transmitting equipment may interfere with sensitive electronic equipment even if both are in compliance with regulatory standards. This paper examines the potential of electromagnetic interference (EMI) between, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Part
The objective in this chapter is to present the current situation in RFID systems and networked transducers and to indicate the strategy that is taken and research that will be necessary to incorporate ?smart? sensors and actuators into existing RFID tags