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Optimizing Manufacturing Efficiency: A Six-Sigma DMAIC Approach to Reduce Operational Gaps

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka

This study applies Six-Sigma DMAIC methodology to enhance the efficiency of a manufacturing production line, specifically targeting the "gaps" between planned and actual working time. Key findings reveal that meetings, scanning, follow-up activities, walki ...

2024

Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Atri Bhattacharyya

Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...

EPFL2024

Dislocation Hardening in a New Manufacturing Route of Ferritic Oxide Dispersion-Strengthened Fe-14Cr Cladding Tube

Roland Logé

The microstructure evolution associated with the cold forming sequence of an Fe-14Cr-1W-0.3Ti-0.3Y2O3 grade ferritic stainless steel strengthened by dispersion of nano oxides (ODS) was investigated. The material, initially hot extruded at 1100 degrees C an ...

MDPI2024

Diaryl ether compound and manufacturing method from lignin

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu

Herein described are diaryl ether compounds having the structure (I) as well as a method for their manufacture from lignin. ...

2023

Caching and Neutrality

Aikaterini Argyraki, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Muhammad Abdullah

We are used to defining network neutrality as absence of traffic differentiation, like policing or shaping. These mechanisms, however, are often not what determines end-users’ quality of experience (QoE). Most content today is accessed through edge caches, ...

ACM Association for Computing Machinery2023

Cost-Based Decision Support System: A Dynamic Cost Estimation of Key Performance Indicators in Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

An attempt is made to translate five generic key performance indicators (KPIs) into a continuous real-time cost function in a batch order-based manufacturing environment. The challenge of controlling and optimizing resource utilization, production efficien ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Manufacturing and toughening effects on the material properties of wind turbine blade adhesives

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Dharun Vadugappatty Srinivasan

Hybrid adhesives can be developed using commercially available adhesive materials and customized to the required loading conditions. In this paper, SPABONDTM 820HTA (non-toughened) and SPABONDTM 840HTA (toughened) adhesives are hybridized by two strategies ...

2022

Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Mechatronic Systems

Petr Listov

This thesis presents an efficient and extensible numerical software framework for real-time model-based control. We are motivated by complex and challenging mechatronic applications spanning from flight control of fixed-wing aircraft and thrust vector cont ...

EPFL2022

A dynamic scheduling tool and a methodology for creating digital twin of manufacturing systems for achieving Zero Defect Manufacturing

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Nowadays manufacturing environment is highly volatile and rapidly changing as the need of products is increasing exponentially, due to the fact that Product Life Cycle is shortened and therefore more products are required to be manufactured or remanufactur ...

EPFL2021

A generic methodology and a digital twin for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM) performance mapping towards design for ZDM

Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Over recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen constant growth and change. From one side, it has been affected by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). From the other side, it has had to enhance its ability to meet higher customer expect ...

2021

Development of soft microscopic implants and acoustically-powered machines for biomedical applications

Murat Kaynak

The development of miniaturized machines that can actively cross barriers, navigate through heterogeneous materials and access remote sites can revolutionize environmental inspection and targeted therapy. Seminal work demonstrated the feasibility of follow ...

EPFL2021

Stretchable Kirigami Components for Composite Meso-Scale Robots

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Layer-by-layer manufacturing of composite mechanisms allows fast and cost-effective fabrication of customized robots in millimeter and centimeter scales which is promising for research fields that rely on frequent and numerous physical iterations. Due to t ...

2020

Current Center Line Integration in the Manufacturing Process of the ITER Toroidal Field Coils

Santiago Tarrago Velez

The first ITER & x0027;s European Toroidal Field Coil (TFC) is going to be assembled in 2019. The TFC is composed mainly by the superconducting Winding Pack (WP - manufactured in Europe), and the Coil Cases (TFCC - manufactured in Japan), which provide str ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Flexure-based mecano-optical multi-degree-of-freedom transducers dedicated to medical force sensing instruments

Sebastian Krzysztof Fifanski

This thesis develops novel multi-degrees-of-freedom flexure-based force sensors by exploiting white light interferometry. Fabry-Pérot interferometry measurement has nanometric accuracy which yields sub milli-Newton force sensing accuracy. Such force sensin ...

EPFL2020

Additive micro-manufacturing of crack-free PDCs by two-photon polymerization of a single, low-shrinkage preceramic resin

Jürgen Brugger, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Helena Van Swygenhoven, Eirini Kakkava, Georgia Konstantinou, Nikolaos Nianias, Jieping Wang, Lorenz Hagelüken

Additive manufacturing (AM) methods are being integrated in ceramics fabrication either as the main manufacturing tool or for auxiliary purposes. By using polymers, powders and preceramic formulated materials, AM techniques are pushing towards higher resol ...

2020

Zero Defect Manufacturing Strategies and Platform for Smart Factories of Industry 4.0

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May

Within the context of market globalisation, the quality of products has become a key factor for success in manufacturing industry. The growing unpredictability of demand necessitates continuous adjustments in production targets. Addressing customer needs a ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN2019

Smart Factory Information Service Bus (SIBUS) for manufacturing application: requirement, architecture and implementation

Jumyung Um, Ian Anthony Stroud

The Smart Factory is an important topic worldwide as a means for achieving Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing domain. Contemporary research on the Smart Factory has been concerned with application of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) to the shop floor. ...

2019

Towards semantics-driven modelling and simulation of context-aware manufacturing systems

Damiano Nunzio Arena

Systems modelling and simulation are two important facets for thoroughly and effectively analysing manufacturing processes. The ever-growing complexity of the latter, the increasing amount of knowledge, and the use of Semantic Web techniques adhering meani ...

EPFL2019

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

This paper discusses Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy. It proposes a "Digital Lean Transformation Framework" where its five management pillars - (Digital) Strategic Management, Processes (Re-)Engin ...

IEEE2019

Reconciling Being in-Control vs. Being Helped for the Execution of Complex Movements in VR

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Performing motor tasks in virtual environments is best achieved with motion capture and animation of a 3D character that participants control in real time and perceive as being their avatar in the virtual environment. A strong Sense of Embodiment (SoE) for ...

IEEE2019