Industrial automation: shop floor production.

This chapter summarizes our latest results concerning the development and the industrial application of the emerging “collaborative industrial automation” technology and its powerful meaning for facilitating the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory. It argues, in this respect, that having a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, fault-tolerant, and reconfigurable production units, which operate as a set of cooperating entities, is one promising platform to achieve both local and global manufacturing objectives. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying scientific and technological background through the development and industrial application of the collaborative automation paradigm will not only inform the academic, research, and industrial world of an emerging control and automation paradigm, but also assist in the understanding of a new vision of the manufacturing system of the 21st century [a mix of collaborative units, i.e., people, software systems, processes, and equipment (hardware), integrated into a virtual factory].

Collaborative Industrial Automation

Virtual Enterprise Integration ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-405-7.ch022 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 417-435

Author(s):

Armando W. Colombo ◽

Ronald Schoop

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Industrial Application ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Academic Research ◽

Shop Floor ◽

Software Systems ◽

Industrial Automation ◽

Virtual Factory ◽

New Vision ◽

Automation Technology

This chapter summarizes our latest results concerning the development and the industrial application of the emerging “collaborative industrial automation” technology and its powerful meaning for facilitating the integration of a dynamic reconfigurable shop floor into a virtual factory. It argues, in this respect, that having a conglomerate of distributed, autonomous, intelligent, fault-tolerant, and reconfigurable production units, which operate as a set of cooperating entities, is one promising platform to achieve both local and global manufacturing objectives. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying scientific and technological background through the development and industrial application of the collaborative automation paradigm will not only inform the academic, research, and industrial world of an emerging control and automation paradigm, but also assist in the understanding of a new vision of the manufacturing system of the 21st century [a mix of collaborative units, i.e., people, software systems, processes, and equipment (hardware), integrated into a virtual factory].

Making Movies and Community of Talent

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/11.10.2019/003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 1057-1064

Author(s):

Katsuhiko Hirasawa ◽

Keyword(s):

Shop Floor ◽

High Quality ◽

Democratic Leadership ◽

Staff Members

Staff members at a movie company Daiei, known for presumably the world’s best film technology, continued to produce movies for several months even after the company went bankrupt. It was because they desired to make outstanding films. A director can create a high-quality film by combining the skills and ideas of such staff. Akira Kurosawa named the group that could produce excellent works the “Community of Talents”. By using research on a community as a clue, this paper aims to highlight how the “Community of Talents” is organized. First I point out that a “Community of Talents” is formulated primarily by the labor of the staff based on Kumazawa’s “Community on the Shop Floor”. The paper subsequently refers to research by Heinrich Nicklish, a representative researcher on the study of community in Germany, in an attempt to verify that the community is a group of people established on functions. Lastly, the paper explores Guido Fisher’s research to reveal the role of democratic leadership centered on the director who transforms the objectified staff in the organization into an independently-minded presence and help them prove their abilities. The paper continues to emphasize the significance of leadership in the formation of the “Community of Talents”.

Beam monitoring benefits for shop floor laser applications

International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics ◽

10.2351/1.5060455 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J Gabzdyl ◽

M Sparkes ◽

W O’Neill

Keyword(s):

Shop Floor ◽

Laser Applications ◽

Beam Monitoring

A Highly Efficient and Optimised Simulation Based Multi objective Decision-Making for FMS Control

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.254 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 98

Author(s):

Shreyanshu Parhi ◽

S. C. Srivastava

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Real Time ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Simulation Software ◽

Shop Floor ◽

Simulation Tool ◽

Routing Flexibility ◽

Decision System ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Arena Simulation

Optimized and efficient decision-making systems is the burning topic of research in modern manufacturing industry. The aforesaid statement is validated by the fact that the limitations of traditional decision-making system compresses the length and breadth of multi-objective decision-system application in FMS. The bright area of FMS with more complexity in control and reduced simpler configuration plays a vital role in decision-making domain. The decision-making process consists of various activities such as collection of data from shop floor; appealing the decision-making activity; evaluation of alternatives and finally execution of best decisions. While studying and identifying a suitable decision-making approach the key critical factors such as decision automation levels, routing flexibility levels and control strategies are also considered. This paper investigates the cordial relation between the system ideality and process response time with various prospective of decision-making approaches responsible for shop-floor control of FMS. These cases are implemented to a real-time FMS problem and it is solved using ARENA simulation tool. ARENA is a simulation software that is used to calculate the industrial problems by creating a virtual shop floor environment. This proposed topology is being validated in real time solution of FMS problems with and without implementation of decision system in ARENA simulation tool. The real-time FMS problem is considered under the case of full routing flexibility. Finally, the comparative analysis of the results is done graphically and conclusion is drawn.

THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP PRACTICES TO TEAM MEMBERS’ SATISFACTION

Journal of Management and Business ◽

10.24123/jmb.v8i1.132 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Chalimah .

Keyword(s):

Conflict Resolution ◽

Leadership Practices ◽

Hotel Industry ◽

Leader Behavior ◽

Team Leader ◽

Shop Floor ◽

Team Members ◽

Top Executives ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Impact

eamwork is becoming increasingly important to wide range of operations. It applies to all levels of the company. It is just as important for top executives as it is to middle management, supervisors and shop floor workers. Poor teamwork at any level or between levels can seriously damage organizational effectiveness. The focus of this paper was therefore to examine whether leadership practices consist of team leader behavior, conflict resolution style and openness in communication significantly influenced the team member’s satisfaction in hotel industry. Result indicates that team leader behavior and the conflict resolution style significantly influenced team member satisfaction. It was surprising that openness in communication did not affect significantly to the team members’ satisfaction.