Strategic Manufacturing Initiative: Decision-Making Methodology for Manufacturing Systems

这项研究的目的是调查和建立一个通用的决策框架，以用于制造系统。具体地说，这项研究涉及制造系统的三个领域：产品设计、生产计划和过程控制。试图利用该框架作为这三个领域的集成工具，从而大幅缩短产品的总开发和生产周期，并使整个制造系统变得更加高效。这项工作采取的方法是一种跨学科的方法，其中将制造工程运筹学和人工智能的不同知识结合在一起，以建立和研究制造系统的通用决策方法。

The purpose of this research is to investigate and establish a common decision-making framework to be utilized in manufacturing systems. Specifically, the research addresses three areas of the system of manufacturing: product design, production planning, and process control. The attempt is to utilize that framework as an integrating vehicle for these three areas so that the total development and production cycle of the product gets substantially reduced, and the entire manufacturing system becomes more efficient. The approach taken in this work is an interdisciplinary one, where diverse knowledge from manufacturing engineering operations research and artificial intelligence is brought together to establish and investigate common decision-making methodology for manufacturing systems.