Manufacturing companies are now on the move towards the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. It is driven by rapid technological developments and the need for industrial actors make oneself independent of high labor costs. Industry 4.0 concerns several aspects of industrial production, including...

Layout design of the production line is a difficult problem directly affecting the productivity. This paper researches on a rapid method of dynamic layout for the production line in manufacturing industry. Based on virtual simulation technology, a visualization system of production line layout is developed...

Geographical location is one of the factors that can contribute to the company's competitive advantage on the global market [1]. Each location is unique in terms of its cultural characteristics; understanding the relation between cultural factors, production characteristics and performance is essential...

This paper first presents the trends and related works of localization and activity recognition of human body. Then we introduced the discussion of multiple studies for person localization and activities recognition. And finally we can see that the ceiling binary infrared sensor network for locating...

Competence brokering for knowledge and technology transfer plays an important role in innovation and development within small and medium sized companies (SMEs). This type of activity focusing on cooperation between SME's and R&D environment has been implemented in various applications in Norway for many...

The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems in highly competitive environments motivates the need for refinement of the design of manufacturing systems. The application of systems engineering is still undeveloped in some industries, but the potential benefits are substantial. However, there exists...

In this paper we consider a scheduling problem with the joint consideration of manufacture and delivery for multiple customers. Since the machine is not always available due to breakdown or maintenance during the manufacture period, the interrupted job is resumable after the machine becomes available...