From sports shoes to car accessories - there is an increasing demand for individualized products. The economic and competitive production of industrial and consumer goods with a high degree of ...

The fully flexible, reconfigurable Intelligent Island Manufacturing System (I²MS) supports high-mix manufacturing, enables ...

Manufacturers have always had to be nimble, adjusting their production processes to meet their customers’ needs, and that means using technology to create a flexible manufacturing process in today's ...

Starline's director of commercial and industrial sales, Adrian Sanchez, explains how outdated power systems can quietly ...

Flexible production system: Higher force and precision, for example when assembling a bicycle frame. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

October 16, 2005 When English physicist, futurist and science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke wrote “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (in “Profiles of the ...

Manufacturing systems performance analysis is a multidisciplinary field that rigorously examines the efficiency, reliability and overall productivity of production systems. The analytical methods ...