Technical Reports

The FMM Center sponsors a number of applied research projects each year. For most, a technical report is prepared summarizing the findings and describing the activity. These reports may be purchased from the FMM Center. The following is a list of available reports which can be ordered which can be ordered directly from the Center by using the order form.

[ 1998 |1997 | 1996 |1995 | 1994 | 1993 ]

-1998

- Developing an Ergonomics Checklist for the Furniture Industry

- High-speed Surface Assessment of Wood Components

- Robotic Sanding of Wood-based Furniture Components with
Complex Contours: Part II

- Ergonomics in the Furniture Industry: Applying what we have learned

- Specification and Development of Intranet-based PDM Tools for the
Furniture Industry

- 1997

- Satisfying Due-Dates in Large Job Shops

- Machined Surface Error Evaluation and Tool Path Generation for 5-Axis CNC
Sculptured Surface Machining

- Organizational Assessment of Integrating CAD & Product Data Management
Tools in the Furniture Industry

- Robotic Sanding of Wood-based Furniture Components with
Complex Contours: Part I

- 1996

- Enhancing Product Development Through Parametric and Product Data
Management Tools

- 1995

- Development of Analytical Models for Furniture

- Biofiltration Treatment of Air Emissions from Wood Furniture Finishing
Operations

- Assessment of Current Trends in Computer-Aided Design and
Manufacturing in the Furniture Industry

- 1994

- Ergonomic Solutions to Address the problems Associated with
Cumulative Trauma Disorders in the Furniture Industry

- 1993

- Gang Rip Saw Arbor Design and Scheduling (GRADS)®

- GRADS® Operations Manual

- CESFAM: A Concurrent Engineering System to Support Flexible
Automation in Furniture Manufacturing

- Design and Development of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell
Control Architecture

- Ergonomics in the Furniture Industry

- Real-Time Scheduling of a Flexible Furniture Manufacturing Cell Using
Neural Nets and Methods of Temporal Difference (TD)

- Manufacturing Cell Design: An Integer Programming Model Employing
Genetic Algorithms