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Fulfillment of Rush Customer Orders under Limited Capacity
(2002-01)
Customer demand fulfillment is the business process within a company that determines how the customer demand is fulfilled. A rush order is the last minute customer order after the production plan of a company has been ...
A Study on the Boundary Conditions of 90° Paper Pop-up Structures
(2004-01)
The design of a pop-up book or card has hitherto been labour intensive with tasks of trials and errors. The constructions of collapsible pop-up structures can be demanding and inefficient without adequate knowledge of their ...
Building a Document Corpus for Manufacturing Knowledge Retrieval
(2004-01)
When faced with challenging technical problems, R&D personnel would often turn to technical papers to seek inspiration for a solution. The building of a corpus of such papers and the easy retrieval of relevant papers by ...
Framework to Manage Customer Enquiries for SMEs
(2003-01)
For most Smaller Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs), how to manage customer enquiries at the customer enquiry stage is of great importance to maintain the competitive advantage and secure future customer orders. A lack of ...
DSS Model for Profit Maximization at Customer Enquiry Evaluation Stage
(2004-01)
This paper presents an optimal method and a heuristic approach which aims at maximizing the profit when responding to a set of customer enquiries under limited capacity. The model takes into consideration the quantity of ...
Functional design of mechanical products based on behavior-driven function-environment-structure modeling framework
(2002-01)
The relative significance of upstream design activity to downstream design activity is widely recognized, due to its critical role in determining the final product’s functionality. Although there are now some general ...
A Hybrid Intelligent System for Stamping Process Planning in Progressive Die Design
(2004-01)
This paper presents an intelligent, hybrid system for stamping process planning in progressive die design. The system combines the flexibility of blackboard architecture with case-based reasoning. The hybrid system has the ...
Functional Modeling in Conceptual Die Design
(2003-01)
The use of function has been recognized as an important part of the design process over last two decades, especially at the conceptual design stage, due to its critical role in determining the final product’s functionality. ...