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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Low-volume production"”.
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Design for low-volume production
In high-volume products, costly investment in design and development is spread over a large production quantity. The result is high-quality, low-cost engineering. In contrast, products produced in low volumes (batch sizes of less than 50 units) often appear to offer inferior value for money. This …
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Implementation of lean manufacturing in a low-volume production environment
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2001.
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Semi-Automatic Nesting and Lean Problem Solving in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Production Environment
… complex manufacturing processes in high-mix-low-volume (HMLV) environments make it difficult and time consuming software to implement the software. This paper describes a solution built for a HMLV company to automate significant portions of the nesting process while maintaining enough human …
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From Prototype to Production: Focus on Manufacturing for Low Volume Production of an On-Farm Milk Analyzing Device
… help to illustrate the track from ideation to production of the product. The final goal is to sell the product to dairy farms; thus, this thesis focuses on the tests that have been run throughout the months. Moreover, it will be explained how and why each part is manufactured in that particular …
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From Prototype to Production: Scaling an On-Farm Milk Analyzing Device to Low Volume Production Using Design for Manufacturability and Assembly
… a commercially-ready industrial device for production. In this thesis, a Milk Analyzer product is designed and developed in collaboration with Labby using an iterative product design process, with a focus on design for manufacturability and assembly (DFMA), so that low volume production of …
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Improving operational effectiveness in the job-shop environment through discrete event simulation and innovative process design
… Company X is a manufacturing area dedicated to production of precision electro-mechanical systems, of which they are contracted to service during the complete lifecycle. Currently, the production system is dedicated to the refurbishment of these electro-mechanical systems; it could be …
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An energy and environmental analysis of aerospace sheet metal part manufacturing
… dies for flexible generic tools but with a slower processing rate. The analysis has two sections. The first section analyzes the current aerospace sheet forming technological and economic landscape in order to determine RAFFT's probable adoption rate and predict which technologies it will …
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3D printing your supply chain
… technology can provide molds that are ideal for low volume production required during the preliminary stages of product design and testing. Implementing our proposed solution may reduce 14% to 26% of a company's time to market by shortening the duration of some critical path activities. The …
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Development of an aluminium filled epoxy insert using perfactory rapid prototyping technique and electroless nickel plating for low volume plastic injection moulding
In this research, a rapid tool for low volume production plastic injection moulding is designed, developed, and tested on an injection moulding machine. The tool is designed as a cavity insert of injection mould for plastic parts by an indirect rapid tooling approach. The plastic part is modelled …
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From Prototype to Production: Product Development of a Modular Automated Milk Sampling Device for Conventional Dairy Farms
… of an infrared sensor that monitors the flow in the milking pipeline, a custom sampling vial that stores the milk sample, and two custom pinch valves which control the flow of air and milk accordingly. The path to low volume production of the automated sampler is laid out after the alpha …
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Cycle Time Reduction for CNC Machining Workcells in High-Mix Low-Volume Manufacturing
… This research, conducted in an active, high-mix, low-volume production environment, focuses on evaluating and implementing improvements to CNC machining parameters to enhance the workcell's capacity. Key areas of investigation include machining speeds and feeds, depth of cut, machine settings, …
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Minimizing machine set-up time when manufacturing printed circuit boards.
… expensive component placement machines for the production of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). However, when these fast machines have to assemble small volumes of many different types of circuit boards, the machine set-up time becomes much more important than the assembly rate of each board. In …
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An Exploration of Rapid Tooling in Low-Cost Bead Foam Molding Applications
… of Additive Manufacturing (AM) applications in low cost bead foam molding, focusing on molding trials, economic analysis, and future potential. Through molding trials, the thesis evaluates the efficacy of AM tooling in comparison to traditional aluminum tooling, specifically in evaluating tool …
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Accelerating Adoption of Large-Format Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace Tooling
… of the industry, this results in a high mix, low volume production environment where quality and precision are important to the customer. In 2020, just prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Ascent made an investment in additive manufacturing technology by purchasing a Large Scale Additive …
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High throughput extrusion additive manufacturing – rate limits and system design
… such, FFF is increasingly used in prototyping, low volume production, and tooling/fixture applications. One of the drawbacks to FFF is its low build rate, which is limited by the fundamentally serial nature of the process–a single printhead must traverse a trajectory that spans the entire built …
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Low volume manufacturing strategies for the automotive industry : a global and emerging economy perspective
Low volume manufacturing has become increasingly important for the automotive industry. Globalization trends have led automakers and their suppliers to operate in developing regions of the world were economies of scale can not always be achieved. Niche markets for the performance/sport cars and …
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The Benefit of Using Simulation to Improve The Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Case Study: Quick Changeovers to Allow Level Loading of The Assembly Line
… case study of implementing level loading of the production schedule for BullFrog International, L.C. will be examined. To make it possible to implement level loading, the thermo-former machine at the beginning of the operations was improved to allow quick changeovers. The changeover time was …
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Design, fabrication, and application of bioinspired soft photonic materials
… limited colors or patterns, high cost, and slow or low-volume production. The core of this thesis is the development of a new manufacturing process capable of producing sheets of mechanically-responsive, structurally-colored materials in a tunable, scalable, and affordable way. These are …
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Additive manufacture of dissolvable tooling for autoclave processing of fiber reinforced polymer composites
… until the part cures and rigidizes. For high-volume production runs, molds may be made from materials such as metals, ceramics, or AFRPCs. However, tooling made from these materials can be costly to manufacture and are not suitable for low volume production runs. This is especially true for …
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Self-Regulating Teamwork Behaviors in Low-Volume & High-Complexity Production
… for ways to improve the performance of their production operations. Lean manufacturing, born out of the Toyota Production System (TPS), has become the dominant improvement method sought to meet this need. Although well established in high-volume production settings, the application of lean …