Publications by Ian Anthony Stroud

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

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

STEP-NC digital thread for additive manufacturing: data model, implementation and validation

Ian Anthony Stroud, Pascal Mognol

Substantial progress and development in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been realised during the last decade but have hardly been implemented on AM systems due to old numerical solutions still used by the AM digital thread, for instance STL ( ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018

STEP-NC compliant process planning of additive manufacturing: remanufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

Additive manufacturing is becoming one of the key methods for reproducing repair sections in remanufacturing processes. The major advantage of using additive processes is to minimize production time and waste. However, the surface quality and shape accurac ...

Springer London Ltd2017

Process-oriented Life Cycle Assessment framework for environmentally conscious manufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud

Environmental concern requires manufacturers to extend the domain of their control and responsibility across the product's life cycle. Much of the research has concentrated on assessment of environmental performance through the application of the Life Cycl ...

Springer2017

Design guidelines for remote laser welding in automotive assembly lines

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

Remote laser welding which has benefits for both productivity and energy saving is receiving increased attention for automotive assembly lines. Introducing this innovative equipment requires a redesign process for assembly elements, for example to substitu ...

Springer London Ltd2017

A roadmap for implementing new manufacturing technology based on STEP-NC

Ian Anthony Stroud

Manufacturing is changing. New ideas of control, the maturity of CAM techniques and computer technology have enabled the definition of an advanced machine tool control standard, STEP-NC. STEP-NC is one part of a larger manufacturing picture with links to d ...

Springer2016

STEP-NC machine tool data model and its applications

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

The machine tool data model of STEP-NC (ISO 14649) was conceived as a necessary extension to the original STEP-NC set of standards to make efficient control possible. The intention of this paper is to describe the background to the data model as well as re ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Medial axis transformation as a solid modeling representation method for computer aided design software

Paul Xirouchakis, Ian Anthony Stroud, Mihai-Bogdan Lazar, Florian Barras, Guillaume Goualard

A method for achieving a representation of an object within a data structure for a Computer Aided Design system employing a Medial Axis Transformation (MAT), the representation of the object comprising a set of adjacent bounded surface elements called MAT ...

2016

Developing energy estimation model based on Sustainability KPI of machine tools

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

Since eco-efficiency of manufacturing resource has been emphasized, various sensors to measure energy consumption have been developed and machine tool builders also provide data of energy consumption of their own products. Due to the variety and complexity ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

A model to determine the optimal parameters in a machining process for the most profitable utilization of machining energy

Ian Anthony Stroud, Olcay Akten, Muhammad Arif

This article presents a model within the sustainable machining paradigm. In general, the optimization of machining process for the minimum energy consumption alone does not have sufficient impetus for application in the manufacturing companies wherein prof ...

Sage Publications Ltd2015