3D Printing and Ubiquitous Manufacturing

3D Printing and Ubiquitous Manufacturing

Author: Tin-Chih Toly Chen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 3030491501

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This book provides a thorough overview of the applications of 3D printing technologies to ubiquitous manufacturing (UM). UM itself represents an application of ubiquitous computing in the manufacturing sector, and this book reveals how it offers convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable manufacturing resources, including software tools, equipment, and capabilities. Given its scope, the book will be of considerable interest to researchers in the areas of manufacturing, mechanical engineering, operations management, production control, ubiquitous computing, and sensor technologies, as well as practicing managers and engineers.


A New Industrial Future?

A New Industrial Future?

Author: Thomas Birtchnell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1317691539

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A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and Urry examine such a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The locating of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. The book drawing upon expert interviews, scenario workshops and various case studies assesses the potential future of global manufacturing, freight transport, world trade and land use. It offers the first book-length social scientific analysis of the character and impacts of a new system of manufacturing that is in formation. The book will be of interest to urban planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, economists, as well as general readers by offering inquiry on this future upheaval in the means of production.


Sustainable Smart Healthcare

Sustainable Smart Healthcare

Author: Tin-Chih Toly Chen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 3031371461

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This book shows how smart technology applications to mobile healthcare will be different in the post-pandemic era. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, smart technologies had been widely applied to mobile health care. It will be the same in the post pandemic. However, the widely used smart technologies before and after the Covid-19 pandemic may be different. First, users' motivations for applying smart technologies have changed. In addition, some innovative ways of applying smart technologies within the Covid-19 pandemic have emerged. Further, users' acceptance of smart technology applications has increased. Furthermore, new smart technologies are still being proposed. This book discusses these topics.


3D Printing Cultures, Politics and Hackerspaces

3D Printing Cultures, Politics and Hackerspaces

Author: Leandros Savvides

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1800716672

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This book appreciably contributes to growing debates within Science and Technology Studies concerned with cultural politics, the emergence of citizen science and civil society interventions in shaping technology. By drawing on fieldwork data, Savvides examines the bourgeoning 3D printing culture in Hackerspaces, Makerspaces and Fab Labs.


Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing

Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing

Author: Lin Zhang

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0128231289

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Customized Production Through 3D Printing in Cloud Manufacturing explains how to combine the latest cloud manufacturing and additive manufacturing technology to find innovative solutions to important problems in research and industry. The manufacturing industry strives constantly to improve levels of product personalization for its customers, who have become increasingly demanding in this respect in recent decades. Among the tools currently growing in use in the industry, there is great potential to address this demand. Cloud manufacturing maps manufacturing resources and capabilities to the cloud, adding the capacity to gather decentralized manufacturing resources and use manufacturing services on-demand, and 3D printing provides strong support for truly individualized manufactured components. This is the first book to cover the whole lifecycle of 3D printing services in a cloud environment, including topics like: cloud servitization of 3D printers, 3D printing model design, supply-demand matching and scheduling, on-demand using and pricing, printing monitoring in cloud, and printing service evaluation. With a systematic introduction to this promising manufacturing paradigm, as well as coverage of models and service management to practical applications, this book will meet the needs of a broad range of researchers as well as practitioners. - Provides readers with a unique combined technical overview of two rapidly developing technologies and how they interact in a modern manufacturing system - Explores important challenges to security and privacy posed by these new technologies - Draws on valuable knowledge of how these technologies have been applied in innovative industry settings


Integrating 3D Printing into Teaching and Learning

Integrating 3D Printing into Teaching and Learning

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9004415130

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This book covers recent attempts to integrate 3D printing into the curriculum in schools and universities and research on its efficacies and usefulness from the practitioners' perspectives. The book unveils the exemplary works by educators and researchers in the field highlighting the current trends, theoretical and practical aspects of 3D printing in teaching and learning.


Artificial Intelligence and Lean Manufacturing

Artificial Intelligence and Lean Manufacturing

Author: Tin-Chih Toly Chen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 3031045831

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This book applies artificial intelligence to lean production and shows how to practically combine the advantages of these two disciplines. Lean manufacturing originated in Japan and is a well-known tool for improving manufacturers' competitiveness. Prevalent tools for lean manufacturing include Kanban, Pacemaker, Value Stream Map, 5s, Just-in-Time and Pull Manufacturing. Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Manufacturing System has been successfully applied to various factories and supply chains around the world. A lean manufacturing system can not only reduce wastes and inventory, but also respond to customer needs more immediately. Artificial intelligence is a subject that has attracted much attention recently. Many researchers and practical developers are working hard to apply artificial intelligence to our daily lives, including in factories. For example, fuzzy rules have been established to optimize machine settings. Bionic algorithms have been proposed to solve production sequencing and scheduling problems. Machine learning technologies are applied to detect possible product quality problems and diagnose the health of a machine. This book will be of interest to production engineers, managers, as well as students and researchers in manufacturing engineering.


A Roadmap to Industry 4.0: Smart Production, Sharp Business and Sustainable Development

A Roadmap to Industry 4.0: Smart Production, Sharp Business and Sustainable Development

Author: Anand Nayyar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3030145441

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Business innovation and industrial intelligence are paving the way for a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes and Big Data are combined to foster industrial growth. The maturity and growth of instrumentation, monitoring and automation as key technology drivers support Industry 4.0 as a viable, competent and actionable business model. This book offers a primer, helping readers understand this paradigm shift from industry 1.0 to industry 4.0. The focus is on grasping the necessary pre-conditions, development & technological aspects that conceptually describe this transformation, along with the practices, models and real-time experience needed to achieve sustainable smart manufacturing technologies. The primary goal is to address significant questions of what, how and why in this context, such as:What is Industry 4.0?What is the current status of its implementation?What are the pillars of Industry 4.0?How can Industry 4.0 be effectively implemented?How are firms exploiting the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and other emerging technologies to improve their production and services?How can the implementation of Industry 4.0 be accelerated?How is Industry 4.0 changing the workplace landscape?Why is this melding of the virtual and physical world needed for smart production engineering environments?Why is smart production a game-changing new form of product design and manufacturing?