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Continual improvement of production process consists of small incremental improvements combined with breakthrough improvement steps. These improvements are usually achieved through the improvement of the organization, processes and people skills using improvement concepts like Lean management. Sometimes, usually for breakthrough improvements, significant financial investments in technology are needed. On the other hand, improving of organization, processes and people skills usually do not require significant financial investments. Therefore, for industrial enterprises, it would be the most valuable to have a procedure for the management of the continual improvement process. The procedure that identifies and focuses on the most important processes or part of processes and selects the improvement action which will have the best effect on key performance indicators (KPIs) of the production process. In this research, an integrative procedure for management of production and service improvement process is experimentally tested on the real assembly line in the Laboratory at FESB, University of Split. The focus of this paper is on the innovative multicriteria decision making support system for prioritization of proposed improvement processes, based on the HUMANT algorithm. The result is that one proposed improvement process is selected as the most effective solution, according to pre-defined KPIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the case of three-dimensional (3D) printing complex products or big assemblies must be minimize the manufacturing process cost. Taking this into account, some printing parameters must be optimised, such as 3D printing time, post-processing time and material consumption. In this paper, a methodology regarding of design for additive technologies (DFAdT) and design for rapid prototyping/ rapid manufacturing assembly (DFA-RP/RM) is proposed, based mainly on separation of complex products in optimal subassemblies. A case study focused on a new concept of an electric vehicle (self-balancing scooter) is presented. The scaled prototype is manufactured using polyjet additive technology within the Industrial Innovative Technologies Laboratory, Department of Manufacturing Engineering from "Transilvania" University of Brasov, Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes an idea for an evolutionary assembly system. The idea is based on bionic behavior and leads to a factory model that is working very target orientated. The basic framework for the factory model is summarized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]