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A Computational Method for Identifying the Optimum Buffer Size in the Era of Zero Defect Manufacturing

Decreasing defects, waste time, meeting customer demand and being adaptable are the goals of a Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) strategy. Scheduling is an important tool to perform that. It should take in account buffer size allocation. In this study, a met ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

High resolution eddy current inspection and eddy current testing for additive manufacturing

David Florian Hippert

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is one of the key method developed for the safety mechanism of many industrial fields, e.g. aerospace, oil and gas and power industries. Among the NDT techniques, eddy current testing belongs to the well-established ones and h ...

EPFL2016

Enhancing Design Students’ Comfort and Versatility in the Shop: A Project-Based Approach.

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

“Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design I” is a sophomore-level class, required of Civil and Environmental Engineering (C EE) majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The main objective of this class is to teach studen ...

2014

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Efficient Milling Process Plans for Prismatic Parts

Nenad Nesic

The milling process has been continuously optimized from many aspects: forces, velocities, stability, quality. Numerous papers have been published that report results in the domain of toolpath optimization with criteria such as raising the quality of the m ...

EPFL2012

Part Programming to Realize Chatter Free and Efficient High Speed Milling

Saurabh Aggarwal

High speed milling (HSM) is the most known machining process due to its application in various industries. In milling, a rotating cutting tool removes a large amount of material along a predefined toolpath to manufacture the final part with a desired shape ...

EPFL2012

A system for resource efficient process planning for wire EDM

Paul Xirouchakis, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Sandeep Dhanik

Efficient utilization of available resources for a particular machine tool technology is an important aspect of sustainable manufacturing. The objective of this paper is to present a method for efficient resource process planning for a Wire EDM Machine Too ...

2011

Machine Tool Use Phase

Ioan Oliver Avram

This thesis is motivated from the fundamental decision problem in today's manufacturing industry which could be summarized as one simple question: how is it possible to achieve economic growth by taking advantage of the latest technologies while protecting ...

EPFL2010

Design of hybrid-kinematic mechanisms for machine tools

Patric Pham

The machine tool industry is a well established, old and extremely important branch of today's manufacturing industry. With the ongoing globalization and the resulting increase of competition in this industry, the manufacturers have to push their technolog ...

EPFL2009

NC tool path evaluator and generator for high speed milling

Sandeep Dhanik

Milling is a most common type of material removal process by rotating tools to create a variety of features on a part. The material is removed in a controlled way by sweeping a rotating cylindrical tool along the specific trajectory known as milling tool p ...

EPFL2009

FEM-MILL: a finite element based 3D transient milling simulation environment for process plan verification and optimization

Jitender Kumar Rai

The rigid body motion of thin walled parts and their elastic-plastic deformations induced during high speed milling are the main root causes of part geometrical and dimensional variabilities; these are governed mainly from the choice of process plan parame ...

EPFL2008

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