Articles

Abstract: The manufacturing sector is currently reinventing itself by embracing the opportunities offered by the industrial internet, automation, and machine learning, just to name a few. This development is commonly referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Smart Manufacturing. While Smart Manufacturing can be observed around the globe, there...

Abstract: In the process of wood manufacturing, each step affects the material utilization and the cost efficiency. Wood has got high diversity in its inherent features and the different manufacturing steps must be able to handle this. In most end products the proportion of the raw material cost is high....

Abstract The existence of some segments of the US furniture industry is threatened by imports from offshore countries. Mass Customization (MC) is discussed as a competitive strategy for US furniture manufacturers to offset their intrinsic production cost disadvantage. Examples from four domestic furniture industry sub sectors are used to propose...