Browsing Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST) by Issue Date
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Application of Stereo Imaging to Atomic Force Microscopy
(2002-01)Metrological data from sample surfaces can be obtained by using a variety of profilometry methods. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), which relies on contact inter-atomic forces to extract topographical images of a sample, ... -
Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Direct Writing System for Photomask Fabrication
(2002-01)Photomasks are the backbone of microfabrication industries. Currently they are fabricated by lithographic process, which is very expensive and time consuming since it is a several step process. These issues can be addressed ... -
Fulfillment of Rush Customer Orders under Limited Capacity
(2002-01)Customer demand fulfillment is the business process within a company that determines how the customer demand is fulfilled. A rush order is the last minute customer order after the production plan of a company has been ... -
Patterns of Product Development Interactions
(2002-01)Development of complex products and large systems is a highly interactive social process involving hundreds of people designing thousands of interrelated components and making millions of coupled decisions. Nevertheless, ... -
Functional design of mechanical products based on behavior-driven function-environment-structure modeling framework
(2002-01)The relative significance of upstream design activity to downstream design activity is widely recognized, due to its critical role in determining the final product’s functionality. Although there are now some general ... -
A Study of Service Center Records Using Data Mining
(2002-01)In many manufacturing companies, large databases containing data on failures and repairs of products are maintained. This paper reports on a case where information from such a database is extracted. Such information extracted ... -
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ga(In)AsN/GaAs Quantum Wells towards 1.3µm and 1.55µm
(2002-01)In this article, we report an attempt of extending the InGaAsN materials towards 1.3µm and 1.55µm wavelength. All these InGaAsN samples are grown in a plasma-assisted solid-source molecular-beam epitaxy (SS-MBE) system. ... -
Planning Design Iterations
(2002-01)Companies developing new products have a wide variety of product development (PD) processes from which to choose. Each process offers a different method of iteration to manage risk. Companies must therefore consider the ... -
Reactive Schedule Repair of Job Shops
(2002-01)Disruptions to job shop schedules are tedious and difficult to incorporate after the schedule has been generated and implemented on the shop floor. In order to deal with such disruptions, a real time reactive scheduling ... -
Robust Cooperative Strategy for Contour Matching Using Epipolar Geometry
(2002-01)Feature matching in images plays an important role in computer vision such as for 3D reconstruction, motion analysis, object recognition, target tracking and dynamic scene analysis. In this paper, we present a robust ... -
Collaborative Engine for Distributed Mechanical Design
(2002-01)Effective collaboration is essential for engineers at geographically dispersed locations to accomplish good design with less iteration. Over the last several years, more and more efforts have been put into such research ... -
Direct Fabrication of Planar Grating by Ultrafast Laser Beam
(2002-01)Femtosecond laser pulse has been used for the machining of the gratings primarily due to its superior advantages over conventional continuous wave (CW) and long pulse lasers for micromachining. In this paper, we develop a ... -
Tactical Shipping and Scheduling at Polaroid with Dual Lead-Times
(2002-01)We report on a project with Polaroid Corporation in which we developed a supply chain model to provide decision support for planning production and transportation. Production occurs in Asia to serve world-wide demand. ... -
Mining Of Text In The Product Development Process
(2002-01)In the prevailing world economy, competition is keen and firms need to have an edge over their competitors for profitability and sometimes, even for the survival of the business itself. One way to help achieve this is the ... -
Efficient Methods for Manufacturing System Analysis and Design
(2002-01)The goal of the research described here is to develop tools to assist the rapid analysis and design of manufacturing systems. The methods we describe are based on mathematical models of production systems. We combine earlier ... -
Cycle to Cycle Manufacturing Process Control
(2002-01)Most manufacturing processes produce parts that can only be correctly measured after the process cycle has been completed. Even if in-process measurement and control is possible, it is often too expensive or complex to ... -
2.5 D Cavity Balancing
(2002-01)Cavity balancing is the process of altering the flow front within a cavity through thickness and design changes such that the desired fill pattern is achieved. The 2 dimensional (2D) cavity-balancing algorithm, developed ... -
Particle Migration of Quasi-Steady Flow in Concentrated Suspension for Powder Injection Molding
(2002-01)A hybrid FEM/FDM algorithm for particle migration of quasi-steady flow in concentrated suspension materials is proposed in this study. This hybrid FEM/FDM algorithm in which the planar variables, such as pressure field, ... -
Recent Progress in Droplet-Based Manufacturing Research
(2002-01)This article reports the recent progress of re-search made in the Droplet-Based Manufacturing Laboratory at MIT. The study has been focused on obtaining a fundamental understanding of microdroplet deposition and applying ... -
A System Architecture-based Model for Planning Iterative Development Processes: General Model Formulation and Analysis of Special Cases
(2002-01)The development process for complex system is typically iterative in nature. Among the critical decisions in managing such process involves deciding how to partition the system development into iterations. This paper ...
