Sunday, May 31, 2009

Traceability essential to have limited Product Recall

International Journal of Information Technology and Management
 Issue: Volume 8, Number 3 / 2009
 Pages: 321 - 339
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Manufacturing traceability data management in the supply chain

Julio Garrido Campos A1 and Luis Rodriguez Miguez A2

A1 Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Universidad de Vigo, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, 36200, Vigo, Spain.
A2 Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica, Universidad de Vigo, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, 36200, Vigo, Spain

Abstract:

The paper proposes the organisation of manufacturing traceability data in a similar way to the product structure, but including machining operations. In ISO 10303 STEP data transfer scenarios, the proposed linkage between traceability data and CAD/CAM/CNC feature data provides significance to the traceability data, driving the data transfer through the industrial partners. Traceability data will be understandable and available whenever required, irrespective of the manufacturing process or supply chain complexity.


Keywords:

manufacturing traceability, computer aided design, CAD, computer aided manufacturing, CAM, standard for the exchange of product data, STEP, product data management, CNC, PDM, supply chain management, SCM, quality control, data exchange, data transfer


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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Operations research

Operations Research (OR) in North America and Australia, and Operational Research in Europe, is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics and formal science that uses methods like mathematical modeling, statistics, and algorithms to arrive at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex problems. It is typically concerned with optimizing the maxima (profit, assembly line performance, crop yield, bandwidth, etc) or minima (loss, risk, etc) of some objective function. Operations research helps management achieve its goals using the scientific process.

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1 Overview
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