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| Development of smart manufacturing for tiling automation of custom mosaic design | |
| Author | Abeywardena, Bothungaarachchige Naduni Hansika | 
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology | 
| Abstract | Mosaic is the art of producing an image or a pattern by arranging small colored pieces of hard material such as stone tile or glass. With the increasing trend for customized products, the need for custom mosaic designs arose. A smart system flexible enough to handle multiple orders while managing production by self-adapting to changes within the factory environment was necessary. The concept of smart manufacturing suggests that by distributing the decisionmaking capability to the lower levels of a system, the system can adapt in real time to the changing conditions within a factory. In this thesis, using collaboration between the lower levels and with the assistance of communication between these lower levels, a smart system which has the ability to self-adjust to varying conditions within a factory was developed. | 
| Year | 2019 | 
| Type | Thesis | 
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) | 
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) | 
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) | 
| Chairperson(s) | Pisut Koomsap; | 
| Examination Committee(s) | Huynh Trung Luong;Bohez, Erik L. J. ; | 
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT Fellowship; | 
| Degree | Thesis (M. Eng.) -- Asian Institute of Technology, 2019 |