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A Decision Support Methodology for Integrated Machining Process and Operation Plans for Sustainability and Productivity Assessment

April 12, 2020
Author(s)
Qais Hatim, Christopher Saldana, Guodong Shao, Duckbong Kim, KC Morris, Paul Witherell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Soundar Kumara
In this paper, a systematic methodology is presented to enable environmental sustainability and productivity performance assessment for integrated process and operation plans at the machine cell level of a manufacturing system. This approach determines

Defining Near-term to Long-term Research Opportunities to Advance Metrics, Models, and Methods for Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing

February 21, 2020
Author(s)
Arvind Shankar Raman, Karl Haapala, Kamyar Raoufi, Barbara S. Linke, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris
Over the past century, research has focused on continuously improving the performance of manufacturing processes and systems - often measured in terms of cost, quality, productivity, and material and energy efficiency. With the advent of smart

CHALLENGES IN REPRESENTING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR SYSTEMATIC SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS - WORKSHOP ON JUNE 21, 2018

November 27, 2019
Author(s)
Arvind Shankar Raman, Dustin Harper, Karl Haapala, Barbara S. Linke, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris
A workshop on Challenges in Representing Manufacturing Processes for Systematic Sustainability Assessments, jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, ASTM International, the American

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

The Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) Builder: User's Guide

July 3, 2019
Author(s)
David Lechevalier, William Z. Bernstein
The ASTM E3012-16 Standard Guide for Characterizing Environmental Aspects of Manufacturing Processes provides guidelines for formally characterizing manufacturing processes. However, the difficulty that has arisen in the early use of the standard

A Reference Schema for the Unit Manufacturing Process Information Model

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
William Bernstein, David Lechevalier
This document presents supporting documentation for a reference implementation of the Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) information model presented in ASTM E3012, Standard Guide for Characterizing Environmental Aspects of Manufacturing Processes. A version

Incorporating unit manufacturing process models into life cycle assessment workflows

May 5, 2019
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Cesar D. Tamayo, David Lechevalier, Michael Brundage
Life cycle assessment (LCA) carries significant uncertainties and imprecision due to a number of factors, including the framework's linearity assumptions and the wide use of aggregate unit processes in practice. The goal of this work is to exploit the unit

Factory Optima: A Web-based System for Composition and Analysis of Manufacturing Service Networks based on a Reusable Model Repository

February 6, 2019
Author(s)
Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Mohomad O. Nachawati, William Z. Bernstein, Daniel A. Menasce
This paper reports on the development of Factory Optima, a web-based system that allows manufacturing process engineers to compose, optimize and perform trade-off analysis of manufacturing and contract service networks based on a reusable repository of

UMP BUILDER: CAPTURING AND EXCHANGING MANUFACTURING MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

September 26, 2018
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Donald E. Libes, David J. Lechevalier
Targeting the improvement of environmental analysis of manufacturing systems, ASTM 3012-16 provides guidelines for formally characterizing manufacturing processes. However, the difficulty that has arisen in the early use of the standard illustrates the

Standard Data-Based Predictive Modeling for Power Consumption in Turning Machining

February 26, 2018
Author(s)
Seungjun Shin, Jungyub Woo, Sudarsan Rachuri, Prita Meilanitasari
In the metal cutting industry, power consumption is an important metric in the analysis of energy efficiency since it relates to energy consumption of machine tools. Much of the research has developed predictive models that correlate process planning

Manufacturing and Contract Service Networks: Composition, Optimization and Tradeoff Analysis based on a Reusable Repository of Performance Models

January 15, 2018
Author(s)
Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Mohomad O. Nachawati, William Z. Bernstein, Daniel A. Menasce
In this paper we report on the development of a software framework and system for composition, optimization and trade-off analysis of manufacturing and contract service networks based on a reusable repository of performance models. Performance models

Research directions for an open unit manufacturing process repository: A collaborative vision

December 20, 2017
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Arun Bala Subramaniyan, Alexander Brodsky, Ian C. Garretson, Karl Haapala, Donald E. Libes, Katherine C. Morris, Rong Pan, Vittaldas Prabhu, Arkopaul Sarkar, Arvind Shankar Raman, Zhenhua Wu
The design of manufacturing systems can see dramatic improvements through the use of digital technologies for modeling and simulation prior to deployment. At the 2017 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference held jointly with the

Environmental KPI Selection Using Criteria Value and Demonstration

September 7, 2017
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Deogratias Kibira
Determining key performance indicators (KPI) is a first step in achieving environmen-tal sustainability of manufacturing operations. KPI selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem, because of various criteria that must be considered. Intuitively

MANUFACTURING DATA ANALYTICS USING A VIRTUAL FACTORY REPRESENTATION

July 6, 2017
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao, Seungjun Shin
Manufacturing organizations are able to accumulate large amounts of plant floor production and environmental data due to advances in data collection, communications technology, and use of standards. Data analytics can help understand and gain insights from
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