Search for dissertations about: "automation manufacturing"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 183 swedish dissertations containing the words automation manufacturing.
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16. Communicating performance measures : Supporting continuous improvement in manufacturing companies
Abstract : Manufacturing enterprises are a key driver of economic growth (Eurostat, 2016). Implementing continuous improvement (CI) is commonly used to increase competitiveness (Hyland et al., 2007), but despite the well-known theory of CI, many manufacturing companies fail in implementing it (Bhasin, 2012; Nordin et al., 2012; Tiwari et al. READ MORE
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17. Reliable Virtual Commissioning
Abstract : Virtual commissioning is a technique for programming, optimising and verifying industrial automated production, such as robot controllers and programmable logic controllers (PLC), off-line in a simulated environment. Compared with traditional robot off-line programming and simulation, the scope is wider and can include an entire production cell. READ MORE
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18. On Reinforcement Learning and Digital Twins for Intelligent Automation
Abstract : Current trends, such as the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable manufacturing, enable and necessitate manufacturing automation to become more intelligent to meet ever new design requirements in terms of flexibility, speed, quality, and cost. Two distinct research streams towards intelligent manufacturing exist in the scientific literature: the model-based digital twin approach and the data-driven learning approach. READ MORE
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19. Exploring aspects of automation decisions : A study in the Swedish wood products industry
Abstract : The wood products industry is important to Sweden's prosperity, and is currently facing several challenges by increased global competition. To avoid the gradual decline of the industry’s contribution to the country’s revenues and employment opportunities, the Swedish wood products industry needs to increase the proportion of the raw material that is refined. READ MORE
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20. Design Automation for Additive Manufacturing : A Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Approach
Abstract : Additive manufacturing (AM) is a group of manufacturing methods which have attracted rapidly increasing interest in academia and industry during the last years. AM's main benefits are manufacturing of complex shapes and small-scale manufacturing, without the additional cost of traditional manufacturing methods. READ MORE