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Improvement Strategies for Manufacturers using the MESA MOM Capability Maturity Model

September 3, 2017

Author(s)

Quanri Li, Michael Brundage, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

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

Maturity models and tools for enabling Smart Manufacturing Systems: comparison and reflections for future developments

July 10, 2017

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Anna D. Carolis, Marco Macchi, Michael P. Brundage, Sergio Terzi

Smart manufacturing through a framework for a knowledge-based diagnosis system

June 9, 2017

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Toyosi Ademujimi, Badarinath Rakshith

Various techniques are used to diagnose problems throughout all levels of the organization within the manufacturing industry. Often times, this root cause analysis is ad-hoc with no standard representation for artifacts or terminology (i.e., no standard

PROCEDURE FOR DEVELOPING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING

June 8, 2017

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Deogratias Kibira, Michael P. Brundage, Katherine C. Morris

The need for an open, inclusive, and neutral procedure for developing key performance indicators (KPIs) has been increasing as manufacturers seek to determine what to measure in order to improve environmental sustainability of their products and

Using graph-based visualizations to explore key performance indicator relationships for manufacturing production systems

March 9, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Brundage, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris, John A. Horst

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are crucial for measuring and improving the performance of a manufacturing process. An especially critical aspect of developing balanced process performance improvement strategies across all critical objectives is the need

Semi-Autonomous Labeling of Unstructured Maintenance Log Data for Diagnostic Root Cause Analysis

September 7, 2016

Author(s)

Michael E. Sharp, Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage

To facilitate root cause analysis in the manufacturing in- dustry, maintenance technicians often ll out \maintenance tickets" to track issues and corresponding corrective actions. A database of these maintenance-logs can thus provide problem descriptions

An Overview of a Smart Manufacturing System Readiness Assessment

September 5, 2016

Author(s)

Kiwook Jung, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Sangsu Choi, Michael Brundage

Technologies for creating smart manufacturing systems or factories are becoming increasingly abundant. However, manufacturers, large and small, need to correctly select and prioritize these technology adoptions. In addition, other improvements may be