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Advanced Manufacturing
Offers free subscriptions to Advanced Manufacturing and contains manufacturing related research reports. Learn about "lean manufacturing" and also contains new ideas on theory and technology.
Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
"The Aerospace Robotics Laboratory is a research group in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Research in the ARL focuses on improving robotic performance through the application of feedback control, integrated sensing systems, and task-level autonomy. All of the research is developed and validated on experimental hardware systems. These systems include both mobile robots (land, sea, sky, and space) and a variety of fixed manipulators for space and factory applications."
Automation of Assembly Operations on Parts - (dead link)
"A Flexible Assembly System (FAS) is an automated system for industrial assembly of low-volume batches of product variants within one or more product families. The DIAC-project (Delft Intelligent Assembly Cell) aims at the development, implementation and integration of technology that makes up a flexible assembly system for assembly of mechanical products."
AZoM
The A to Z of Materials
"A totally free access materials knowledge base and news service for the engineering, design and materials community worldwide. AZoM's content covers the whole spectrum of Metals, Ceramics, Polymers and Composites, with both news and technical data."
Comparing Just In Time (KANBAN) With MRP2
Contains a side by side comparison of how Toyota's Kanban philosophy differs from a typical Western company.
Cyberman-A Manufacturing Educational Experience
"The CYBERMAN Education Page is focused on providing manufacturing-related educational materials. The materials may be used to supplement existing manufacturing courses or may assist students/engineers in self study. The CYBERMAN Education Page consists of CYBERMAN Primers: Writeups that provide individuals with basic knowledge and insights on manufacturing-related topics. The primers include tutorial type information, graphics, and are updated periodically. Students accessing these primers may also make use of listings of relevant research papers and reference texts as well as links to related Web sites for further information. Software Testbeds: As part of their research activities several universities have developed software tools to simulate manufacturing process behavior and attack other manufacturing-related problems. These WWW-based testbeds include instructions on their use as well as sample testbed inputs and outputs. It is anticipated that students may use the testbeds and tutorials as part of their manufacturing course work."
Department of Mechanical Engineering at King's College London
:"Research in the department takes place within two centers. The Experimental & Computational Laboratory for the analysis of Turbulence, which includes research in the areas of measurement and prediction of the flow and turbulence in internal combustion engine manifolds, ports and cylinders; convective heat transfer in enclosures and ventilated spaces; flow characteristics of stirred reactors, pharmaceutical inhalers and sprays; computational fluid dynamics. The Center for Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, which includes research in the areas of mechatronics, robotics, control, CAD/CAM, materials & manufacturing processes.'"
Design inSite
The Designer's Guide to Manufacturing
"...is the Designer's guide to manufacturing. Various manufacturing processes and materials are described as well as the products where they are used. The purpose of Design inSite is to inspire designers in their designwork to consider materials and processes which are new or unknown to them. By being aware of the new possibilities already in an early stage of the development process new and innovative products will emerge."
Finishing.Com
Contains: anodizing, plating, powder coating and related surface finishing arts. Sections on chemicals , equipment , services , hep wanted , software and training.
Fraunhofer- Institute For Factory Operation and Automation(IFF)
"The Fraunhofer IFF is an application-oriented research center for factory operation and automation. Is is unique in that it links academic research and industrial applications. Research activities at the IFF addresses all areas of industrial processes."
Geometry in Action
"...Collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real world applications. It contains brief descriptions of those applications and the geometric questions arising from them, as well as pointers to web pages on the applications themselves and on their geometric connections. This is largely organized by application but some major general techniques are also listed as topics...".
Holonic Manufacturing System
"...Abstract: The paper presents the "Holonic Manufacturing Systems" (HMS) concept, and briefly describes the HMS project, one of the six test cases of the Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS) Feasibility Study Program. The development of a holonic scheduling system is then highlighted...".
Information Model Level Integration for CIM Systems: A Unified Database Approach to Concurrent Engineering
"Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is an ideal state in which computer based manufacturing applications communicate information to coordinate design, planning and manufacturing processes. Traditional approaches to integration focus on either developing translations between two systems or a single data file that acts as a database for all integrated tools. What is needed, however, is an integration architecture which supports each application's local data requirements. To understand each system's data requirements, We Need to model them using an information model."
Integration Engineering Laboratory - (dead link)
"...Integration engineering addresses a complete manufacturing enterprise and its infrastructure. It studies the synergy of system integration. Integration engineering includes both the product and the processes which support its realization...".
Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems-Network of Excellence
"...The main objective of the NOE in Intelligent Control and Integration of Manufacturing Systems (ICIMS) is to pool together and enhance the human and material resources of leading research and academic institutions as well as related industries aiming at the creation of an infrastructure that will allow the coordination of research and development, provide the leadership for new research directions efficiently disseminate the new knowledge and help the effective training of professionals and students alike...".
Interactive Product Design Tools for Flexible Automated Assembly - (dead link)
"Assembly is defined as joining and fastening of single, manufactured parts in a specified sequence into a complete product or unit that is part of a product. In spite of considerable efforts in flexible assembly automation in series production, industrial penetration is still low. Experience in research has shown that the prime bottleneck in the application of flexible automation lies in product design. The goal of this project is development of designer support methods aiming at design of products optimized for flexible automated assembly."
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
""IMS is an industry-led, international Research & Development Program established in 1995 to develop the next generation of manufacturing and processing technologies."
Just In Time Manufacturing
Contains information on the successful implementation
of J.I.T.
Manufacturing Education
"...The Manufacturing Education Page is focused on providing manufacturing-related educational materials. The materials may be used to supplement existing manufacturing courses or may assist students/engineers in self study...".Topics include, turning, milling, drilling, machine tools, design for manufacture, heat in maching, and environmentally conscious manufacture.
Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory "MEL is the premier national resource for rapid, high quality solutions to measurements and standards problems in the U.S. discrete-part manufacturing industry’s use of leading edge technology. To satisfy the measurements and standards needs of the U.S. discrete-parts manufacturers in mechanical and dimensional metrology and in advanced manufacturing technology by conducting research & development, providing services and participating in standards activities."
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Metals Industry Guide
"The most comprehensive online guide for the metal industry including material buyers guides, material suppliers, e-commerce sites, industry news, and metallurgical data from your About.com Guide."
By Jason Nadeau
Recent Advances in Manufacturing - (dead link)
:"...Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in well over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings...".
Reliability Analysis Center
"...The mission of the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) is to provide technical expertise and information in the engineering disciplines of reliability, maintainability, supportability and quality and to facilitate their cost-effective implementation throughout all phases of the product or system life cycle...".
Solvent Alternatives Guide - (dead link)
"SAGE is a comprehensive guide designed to provide pollution prevention information on solvent and process alternatives for parts cleaning and degreasing. SAGE does not recommend any ozone depleting chemicals."
Texas A&M Computer Aided Manufacturing
Contains journals and technical papers on floor shop control, simulation, material handling and scheduling.
University of California, Berkeley - The ALPHA Laboratory
"...is a center for research in automated manufacturing and robotics. Our aim is to develop efficient algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing and Grasping. We are also active in research in Collaborative Filtering, Internet Telerobotics and Computational Physiology."
Reference Desk
Institute of Materials - Materials Careers
Martindale's- The Calculator Desk
Digital Library
Advanced Design and Manufacturing
American Machinist
Assembly Magazine On-Line
Constructech Online
Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering (EJSE)
(ISSN 1443-9255)
Engineer Online
Industrial Technology - (dead link)
Industry Week
Journal of Corrosion Science and Engineering (JCSE) - (dead link)
Manufacturing Engineering
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Manufacturing Report
Metallic Materials / Kovove Materialy (English or Slavak/Czech)
Plant Engineering Online - (dead link)
Rome Laboratory Reliability Engineer's Toolkit
"...is a 274 page guide book covering topics ranging from tailoring a reliability program based on external constraints to providing useful information about reliability design, analysis and testing. It is intended for use by a practicing reliability engineer."
Organizations
Association for Manufacturing Excellence
Association for Manufacturing Technology
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture Association
Mechanical and Metal Trades Confederation
National Association of Manufactures
The Polymer Engineering Centre
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Tooling and Manufacturing Association
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