Abstract: Traditional lean manufacturing (LM) material waste and immaterial (time and effort) reduction targets may not be of significant value for complex manufacturing. A competitive advantage in ...

Visual AI agents are transforming semiconductor manufacturing operations by driving new levels of quality and productivity through visual inspection and the fine-tuning of vision foundation models ...

This webcast features: Mitsutaka Shirasaki, Drug Product Inspection and Packaging, Samsung Biologics. The role of visual inspection (VI) is to monitor the health of upstream processes—formulation, ...

I just finished spending three days with a man named Josh Springer, inventor of “Bottoms Up,” a draft beer dispensing system that fills the glass from the bottom. It’s probably the coolest invention I ...

A lean business model is an approach to business development that focuses on creating value for the customer while minimizing waste within the organization. This model derives its core principles from ...

When you study lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, and other continuous improvement methods, you find a lot of insight on high-quantity production. Precision sheet metal fabricators often adapt ...

ABSTRACT: The current process of detecting the pulling force of slender metal wires is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient. By exploring the design of automatic feeding modules, automatic ...

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