Advanced Materials Research Vols. 201-203

Abstract: This analysis details manufacturers’ choices of self-service and outsourcing service modes, and the factors which influence manufacturers’ mode selection and pricing decisions, such as customer distribution for high-end and low-end markets, customer utility evaluation and transfer costs are analyzed in the frame work of the Hotelling model. The results indicate that customer utility evaluation for manufacturers’ self-service mode should be enhanced when manufacturers select this mode. And it is important for manufacturers who choose outsourcing service mode to improve service quality considering customer personal needs, expand differentiation of outsourcing services.

Abstract: Based on analysis of the cargo selecting strategy of fixed shelf automated warehouse, the idea of path optimization is put forward and the stacker path optimization method is studied. A mathematical model of stacker operation path optimization is built to minimize the length of operation path and the operation time. The model is solved by using the ant colony optimization method. Simulation shows that chosen stacker operation path by using the optimization model and optimization algorithm, can not only reduce energy consumption and warehouse operating costs, but also improve the efficiency of goods storage.

Abstract: Nowadays, researchers’ study on DMI more focus on the influence of DMI to new products or new products development, Few focus on the influence to the manufacturing performance in manufacturing enterprises. Especially it lacks empirical research on how DMI’s various activities influence manufacturing performance and how interact on each other between them. Based on the theoretical analysis on DMI, this paper analyzes the correlations between horizontal organizational integration, design integration, technological integration and the relation between them and manufacturing performance, provides the hypothesis, and carries out the empirical research on 150 enterprises in china in 2009’s International Manufacturing Strategy Survey, it turned out that horizontal organizational integration, design integration between design and manufacturing departments have positive promoting effect on technological integration. Horizontal organizational integration, design integration and technological integration have positive promoting effect on manufacturing performance. Technological integration plays mediating effect between horizontal organizational integration and manufacturing performance. Technological integration plays mediating effect between design integration and manufacturing performance.

Abstract: The resource optimization of ship erection procedure is a classic NP-hard problem. Through analyzing the character about this problem, an algorithm model of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed. Particle’s coordinate in the particle swarm is used for the activity’s actual start time and methods for resource leveling based on dynamic time variance are designed. Evolution equations based on integer compute rule is introduced to improve the converging speed and accuracy of traditional PSO algorithm. The last simulation experiment with the practical data demonstrates the feasibility and the effectiveness of the improved PSO algorithm by comparisons and analyses.

Abstract: Kanban is the method for operation control as tools that decrease stocks. Kanban can control over stocks Just-In-Time which is effective system in repressing the over stocks. In this research, we studied method of operation using Kanban simulator and this paper has a purpose to design for Kanban System.

Abstract: It studies the balance problems of cycle time of a flywheel production line in this paper. Based on the working time measured using lean manufacturing (LP) methods, the bottleneck processes of production line are found by simulating with software Witness, which is improved by using production cycle balancing method. Comparing the relevant parameters before and after the production line balance,the improvement results of production line are significant and the production efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: In order to make response rapidly for customization demand and reduce the cost, this paper studied the due date strategies between MTS stage and MTO stage of mass customization supply chain. We consider the sequencing and due date of a series of orders that arrive at MTO stage over time. Using of queuing theory, the paper puts forward SPTA-DE algorithm which is the on-line heuristic algorithm of orders scheduling and due date quotation. And, the paper make comparative analyses on the due date and cost for the SPTA- DE heuristic algorithm and FCFS algorithm under the various control parameters, and draws constructive conclusions.

Abstract: From the packaging concept,this article analyzes the transportation of wine packaging, buffer, sales, etc,put forward measures to realize goal of the collection of wine packaging. In the condition of low cost designation, the designers use cardboard, glue, etc,to show the technical ability structure itself and artistic glamour. The realization of aesthetic value, which reflects we pay close attention to the social ecological. We hope it will provide some reference in promoting the development of the internationalization of wine packaging industry.

Abstract: Generative design system is a complex system that often focus on the technical and complex details thus away from building a system from the product designer’s thinking patterns. In addition, by focusing on the mechanism, the system is hard to construct and difficult to use for practical situation. Horizontal/vertical design thinking patterns are often used in product design practice, thus how designers make decision affect the generation reasoning. With the cognitive design researches on design thinking patterns, two research stages (experiment and implementation) are conducted and policy/generation rules are discovered during the experiment with 30 5-year design experts as focus group. An experimental system called thinking pattern-based generation system, a.l.a. ThinkGen is developed for testing the hypothesis.

Abstract: Product variant design is one of the key technologies of Manufacturing Enterprise for responding market demand. During the product variant design, tolerance variant design plays an important role. However, tolerance variant design is considered rarely in the researches of product variant design. To solve the problem of tolerance design in product variant design, a component variant design method integrating dimension and tolerance is presented in this paper. The fundamental and implement of component dimension variant design is introduced. Through analyze the conventional tolerance design method; the status for tolerance variant with its implemental dimension is marked as fixed tolerance value, fixed tolerance grade and tolerance value variant with special regular. The equation of dimensional tolerance variants with the value of implemental dimension is presented. So the procedure of component variant design method integrating dimension and tolerance is proposed. Finally, a case study of output shaft of reducer illustrates the implemental process of proposed method. Result comparing with conventional method shows effectiveness of proposed method.