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Production Method for Machine-Readable Manufacturing Data Standards

June 19, 2020
Author(s)
Tim Shinbara, Russell Waddell, Moneer Helu
Standards to represent and manage manufacturing data are proliferating as industry rapidly digitizes. The existing global standards development paradigm for manufacturing data needs to shift to digital tools and workflows that produce machine-readable

Big Data Analytics for Smart Factories of the Future

June 18, 2020
Author(s)
Robert Gao, Lihui Wang, Moneer Helu, Roberto Teti
Continued advancement of sensors has led to an ever-increasing amount of data of various physical nature to be acquired from production lines. As rich information relevant to the machines and processes are embedded within these "big data," how to

Scalable Data Pipeline Architecture to Support the Industrial Internet of Things

May 17, 2020
Author(s)
Moneer M. Helu, Timothy A. Sprock, Daniel Hartenstine, Rishabh Venketesh, William Sobel
Managing manufacturing data remains challenging despite the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). While various standards and technologies enable greater access to data, scaling data processing and distribution can be difficult given the

Industry Review of Distributed Production in Discrete Manufacturing

April 18, 2020
Author(s)
Moneer M. Helu, William Sobel, Saigopal Nelaturi, Russell Waddell, Scott Hibbard
Distributed production paradigms have grown in discrete manufacturing as discrete products are increasingly made by global, distributed networks. Current challenges faced by discrete manufacturing, such as increased globalization, market volatility

FRAMEWORK FOR A DIGITAL TWIN IN MANUFACTURING

April 11, 2020
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Moneer M. Helu
Digital twin has the potential to be an important technology for achieving smart manufacturing. However, there remains a lot of confusion about the concept and how it can be implemented in real manufacturing systems, especially among small-to-medium

Implementing Grain Traceability Standards: CART and Simulation

February 18, 2020
Author(s)
Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis, R. A. Ferreyra
To ensure food safety, food manufacturers need the ability to quickly identify and trace food products to all equipment and processes throughout the entire associated food supply, production, and transportation network. Government and industry have

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMART MANUFACTURING: THE SIMULATION ASPECT

December 11, 2019
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Sanjay Jain, Christoph Laroque, Loo Hay Lee, Peter Lendermann, Oliver Rose
The purpose of this panel is to discuss the state of the art in digital twin for manufacturing research and practice from the perspective of the simulation community. The panelists come from the US, Europe, and Asia representing academia, industry, and

Software to Report Product and Manufacturing Information in QIF Files

December 4, 2019
Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman
The QIF PMI Report (QPR) software generates a spreadsheet from a Quality Information Framework (QIF) file containing Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI). QIF is a unified XML framework standard for computer-aided quality QIF systems, available free

A Graph-based Automatic Services Composition based on Cost Estimation Heuristic

October 31, 2019
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yunsu Lee, Minchul Lee, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic
Currently, software and hardware are being virtualized and offered as services on the internet. Companies have an opportunity to improve their workflow by composing these services that best suitable their requirements from both quality and cost objectives

Platform-Independent Debugging of Physical Interaction and Signal Flow Models

September 16, 2019
Author(s)
Mehdi Dadfarnia, Raphael Barbau
Systems engineering tools are used to organize development activities of a wide variety ofen gineers, many of which develop their own discipline-specific simulation models. To increase the efficiency of this process, systems modeling tools have been

A Business Context-Based Approach for Message Standards Use – A Validation Study

September 8, 2019
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Nenad Anicic, Zoran Marjanovic
While necessary for a successful integration of enterprise services and applications, use of message standards is a complex activity fraught with issues. An innovative approach and a software tool that make use of business context have been developed to

A Two-Tiered Database Design Based on Core Components Methodology

September 8, 2019
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Marija Jankovic, Zoran Marjanovic
The number of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and cloud service implemen-tations are growing rapidly. In the resulting, emerging, cross-industry, coop-erative environments, a common understanding of message standards will be necessary to enable better

Securing, Authenticating, and Visualizing Data-Links for Manufacturing Enterprises

August 26, 2019
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Sylvere Krima, Laetitia Monnier, Mehdi Shahid
We introduce a prototype implementation of the Securing and Authenticating Data-Links (SADL) Interface, which interacts with a manufacturing handle registry to facilitate traceability of digital resources for engineering projects. This paper outlines the

Modeling a Supply Chain Reference Ontology Based on a Top-Level Ontology

August 19, 2019
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Farhad Ameri
Several ontologies have been introduced in the domain of supply chain over the past decade with the promise of enabling a true supply chain interoperability. However, the existing supply chain ontologies have several gaps with respect to completeness

On-Machine Measurement Use Cases and Information for Machining Operations

August 2, 2019
Author(s)
John A. Horst, Thomas D. Hedberg, Allison Barnard Feeney
Digital thread standards for both dimensional metrology and industrial machine tool operations have been defined in standards organizations and successfully implemented in several commercial manufacturing production operations. A next step is to define a

Towards Operational Use of Unit Manufacturing Process Models

July 25, 2019
Author(s)
Amogh Kulkarni, William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai, Peter O. Denno
Unit Manufacturing Processes (UMP) are models that capture succinct definitions of individual manufacturing steps in a manufacturing system. They are used to facilitate model composition and reuse. However, mainly due to their textual nature, they are

Integrating four-dimensional ontology and systems requirements modelling

July 18, 2019
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, Charles Galey
Ontology has many applications to engineering but is not easily taken up by engineers. For example, specifying products in space and time together (four dimensions) enables more reliable modelling and analysis, but this work is primarily ontological and

FEA solver integration framework

June 20, 2019
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, Jerome Szarazi
Integrating finite element analysis (FEA) with systems engineering (SE) would improve traceability, consistency, and interoperability between SE and FEA activities in multiple engineering disciplines. The first step in achieving this is a software

Testing of the MTConnect - OPC-UA Companion Specification

June 14, 2019
Author(s)
Ryan Fisher, Guodong Shao
Smart Manufacturing (SM) is the future of the manufacturing industry. Seamless, accurate, and fast connection and communications among devices are critical for SM. By leveraging information technologies, devices can dynamically communicate with each other

Foundations of information governance for smart manufacturing

June 11, 2019
Author(s)
KC Morris, Yan Lu, Simon P. Frechette
The manufacturing systems of the future will be even more heavily dependent on the data than they are today. More and more data and information are being collected and communicated throughout product development lifecycles and across manufacturing value
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