Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a smart spare parts inventory management system for a semiconductor manufacturing company. Design/methodology/approach With the development of the Internet of Things and big data analytics, more information can be obtained and shared between fabs...

Batching plays an important role in performance evaluation of manufacturing systems. Three types of batching are commonly seen: transfer batches, parallel batches and serial batches. To model the batching behavior correctly, a comprehensive classification of batching is proposed. Eight types of...

In order to overcome the shortage that point-based data acquisition techniques cannot retrieve the whole basin subsidence caused by underground mining, and to avoid complex splicing of terrestrial 3D laser scanner (TLS) point cloud data and the errors caused by such splicing, GPS/TLS combined...