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Papers by Bopaya Bidanda

Group Technology (GT) is a manufacturing philosophy designed to simplify and standardize producti... more Group Technology (GT) is a manufacturing philosophy designed to simplify and standardize production operations by taking advantage of similarity. Manufacturing performance parameters such as cycle time, quality and costs can be improved by capitalizing on similarities that can be found in such things as workpiece design, assembly methods, purchasing of materials, or tooling designs (Apple 1977).

International Journal of Production Research, Oct 1, 1998

... res., 1998, vol. 36, no. 10, 2701±2715 Accelerating the generation of work measurement standa... more ... res., 1998, vol. 36, no. 10, 2701±2715 Accelerating the generation of work measurement standards through automatic speech recognition: a laboratory study Y. COHEN≤ , B. BIDANDA≤ * and RE BILLO≤ Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an emerging technology. ...

... CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Bidanda, Bopaya. Author: Cleland, David I. Author: Dharwadkar,Shriram R... more ... CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Bidanda, Bopaya. Author: Cleland, David I. Author: Dharwadkar,Shriram R. PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill (New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1993. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0071578129 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xiv, 216 p. ...

Automated Manufacturing: The Managerial Perspective. Planning an Automated Factory. Controlling t... more Automated Manufacturing: The Managerial Perspective. Planning an Automated Factory. Controlling the Automated Factory. Production Technology in Automated Manufacturing. Case Studies.

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, 2013

We develop a comprehensive simulation model for civilian emergency/disaster responses. In order t... more We develop a comprehensive simulation model for civilian emergency/disaster responses. In order to incorporate the detailed interactions among various responders and victims, we integrate the agent-based modeling ideas into the discrete-event simulation framework and hybrid several components such as GIS.

ASM International eBooks, Sep 12, 2022

Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, Oct 13, 2022

Defense and aerospace industries usually possess unique high-mix low-volume production characteri... more Defense and aerospace industries usually possess unique high-mix low-volume production characteristics. This uniqueness generally calls for prohibitive production costs and long production lead-time. One of the major trends in advanced, smart manufacturing is to be more responsive and better readiness while ensuring the same or higher production quality and lower cost. This study reviews the state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies to solve these issues and previews two levels of flexibility, i.e., system and process, that could potentially reduce the costs while increasing the production volume in such a scenario. The main contribution of the work includes an assessment of the current solutions for HMLV scenarios, especially within the defense of aerospace sectors, and a survey of the current and potential future practices focusing on smart production process planning and flexible assembly plan driven by emerging techniques.

International Journal of Production Research

Industrial Engineering, 2019

This paper presents motivations for and potential benefits of a distributed virtual laboratory fo... more This paper presents motivations for and potential benefits of a distributed virtual laboratory for manufacturing education. The distributed virtual laboratory we describe here integrates a contemporary computer-based training delivery system with emerging open information systems, simulation, and visualization methods to form a distributed, architecture-independent, interactive experiential learning environment. We discuss our virtual laboratory concept in the context of recent developments in Internet-based distance learning by engineering educators, and describe a case-study in which the virtual laboratory is used to present a short-course for a Pittsburgh-area industrial engineering firm. We conclude by discussing an information system framework for our implementation of the virtual laboratory.

2004 Annual Conference Proceedings

The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is addressing an importa... more The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is addressing an important issue in IE education-how to develop a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that (1) thoroughly prepares graduating engineering students for industrial practice and graduate school, (2) is pedagogically sound, and (3) trains students to readily recognize and apply their engineering background to solve unstructured problems, both locally and beyond US borders. We present an innovative and unique approach to curriculum reform that contains four overarching objectives: (1) the integration of fundamental concepts across the curriculum; (2) teaching students to synthesize different concepts to solve unstructured problems; (3) providing problem solving methods and strategies within a societal framework that allows for their application in a local as well as a global context; and (4) creating a portable development methodology that can be readily adapted to other engineering disciplines. Our broad objective is to develop a technically sound undergraduate IE curriculum that will (a) be tightly integrated and allow for enhanced learning, (b) ensure that our graduates will have the lifelong engineering proficiencies to successfully apply what they learn, (c) allow our graduates to appreciate the societal role of engineering, both locally and globally, and (d) serve as a model for incorporating these same objectives into curricula for other industrial engineering programs and potentially other engineering disciplines. This paper presents a conceptual model for achieving this objective and reports upon the progress that has been made thus far on this ongoing effort.