1. Modeling of the mechanical behavior of polyethylene/polypropylene blends using artificial neural networks

   • Basem F. Yousef
   • Abdel-Hamid I. Mourad
   • Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 April 2012 Pages: 601 - 611

2. Vibration analysis in milling titanium alloy based on signal processing of cutting force

   • Panling Huang
   • Jianfeng Li
   • Jun Zhou

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 613 - 621

3. Evaluation of the performance of coated carbide tools in face milling TC6 alloy under dry condition

   • Qiulin Niu
   • Ming Chen
   • Qinglong An

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 March 2012 Pages: 623 - 631

4. Analysis of the white layers formed during machining of hardened AISI 52100 steel under dry and cryogenic cooling conditions

   • Domenico Umbrello

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 April 2012 Pages: 633 - 642

5. Development of a stability intelligent control system for turning

   • Gabriel R. Frumusanu
   • Ionut C. Constantin
   • Alexandru Epureanu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 April 2012 Pages: 643 - 657

6. Investigation of the feasibility and effectiveness in using heat pipe-embedded drills by finite element analysis

   • Lin Zhu
   • Tien-Chien Jen
   • Yi-Hsin Yen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 April 2012 Pages: 659 - 668

7. Anti-windup embedded magnetic actuator applied for near-high-speed milling

   • Rong-Mao Lee
   • Nan-Chyuan Tsai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 April 2012 Pages: 669 - 679

8. Effect of progressive forming process and processing variables on the formability of aluminium bipolar plate with microchannel

   • Hae-June Kwon
   • Yong-Phil Jeon
   • Chung-Gil Kang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 March 2012 Pages: 681 - 694

9. Tube hydroforming compression test for friction estimation—numerical inverse method, application, and analysis

   • A. Fiorentino
   • E. Ceretti
   • C. Giardini

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 695 - 705

10. Modeling and investigation on wafer shape in wafer rotational grinding method

    • Keyan Tang
    • Renke Kang
    • Li Song

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 March 2012 Pages: 707 - 714

11. Multiple-response optimisation of electrochemical grinding characteristics through response surface methodology

    • Asit Baran Puri
    • Simul Banerjee

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 March 2012 Pages: 715 - 725

12. Precision grinding of binderless ultrafine tungsten carbide (WC) microstructured surfaces

    • Bing Guo
    • Qingliang Zhao
    • Mark J. Jackson

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 March 2012 Pages: 727 - 735

13. Weld quality analysis and evaluation of plasma arc welds in electrical stators

    • Hugo I. Medellín-Castillo
    • Dirk F. de Lange
    • Pedro de J. Garcia-Zugasti

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 737 - 747

14. Recent developments in modeling of heat transfer during TIG welding—a review

    • V. M. Joy Varghese
    • M. R. Suresh
    • D. Siva Kumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 March 2012 Pages: 749 - 754

15. 3D printed tooling for vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding

    • Dawid Jacobus Dippenaar
    • Kristiaan Schreve

    Original Article 15 March 2012 Pages: 755 - 767

16. Design of a microchannel system using axiomatic design theory for size-controllable and monodispersed microspheres by enhanced perturbation

    • Ki-Young Song
    • Wen-Jun Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 March 2012 Pages: 769 - 779

17. Selection of the optimal electrochemical machining process parameters using biogeography-based optimization algorithm

    • Rajarshi Mukherjee
    • Shankar Chakraborty

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 March 2012 Pages: 781 - 791

18. Structural modeling of industrial wireless sensor and actuator networks for reconfigurable mechatronic systems

    • Reza Abrishambaf
    • Majid Hashemipour
    • Mert Bal

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 March 2012 Pages: 793 - 811

19. Simulation-based fabrication of micro-helical grooves in a hydrodynamic thrust bearing by using ECMM

    • Jung-Chou Hung
    • Chen-Hui Chang
    • Shuo-Jen Lee

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 April 2012 Pages: 813 - 820

20. Critical wall thickness in electrical discharge machining

    • Y. M. Woo
    • S. H. Yeo
    • P. C. Tan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 April 2012 Pages: 821 - 828

21. An experimental investigation on passive water cooling in laser forming process

    • F. Lambiase
    • A. Di Ilio
    • A. Paoletti

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 April 2012 Pages: 829 - 840

22. Multiple response surface optimization with correlated data

    • Ali Salmasnia
    • Reza Baradaran Kazemzadeh
    • Taha Hossein Hejazi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 April 2012 Pages: 841 - 855

23. A process capability index for simple linear profile

    • Mohsen Ebadi
    • Hamid Shahriari

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 April 2012 Pages: 857 - 865

24. Cylindricity modeling and tolerance analysis for cylindrical components

    • Ni Weihua
    • Yao Zhenqiang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 April 2012 Pages: 867 - 874

25. Measuring external profiles of porous objects using CMM

    • Ye Li
    • Naveen P. Surisetti
    • Joseph C. Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2012 Pages: 875 - 887

26. Thermal growth measurement and compensation for integrated spindles

    • Kuen-Hung Hsieh
    • Tsair-Rong Chen
    • Chia-Hui Tang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 14 April 2012 Pages: 889 - 901

27. Multi-response optimization of low-pressure cold-sprayed coatings through Taguchi method and utility concept

    • Tarun Goyal
    • R. S. Walia
    • T. S. Sidhu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 March 2012 Pages: 903 - 914

28. Developing two multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem

    • Seyed Habib A. Rahmati
    • M. Zandieh
    • M. Yazdani

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 March 2012 Pages: 915 - 932

29. Bi-objective hybrid flow shop scheduling: a new local search

    • S. M. Mousavi
    • M. Mousakhani
    • M. Zandieh

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 August 2012 Pages: 933 - 950

30. Scheduling optimization of flexible manufacturing system using cuckoo search-based approach

    • Shashikant Burnwal
    • Sankha Deb

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 March 2012 Pages: 951 - 959

31. Simultaneous coordination of capacity building and price decisions in a decentralized supply chain

    • Yahya Pezeshki
    • Armand Baboli
    • Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 961 - 976

32. Scheduling compound trucks in multi-door cross-docking terminals

    • Cheol Min Joo
    • Byung Soo Kim

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 March 2012 Pages: 977 - 988

33. Particle swarm optimization for scheduling batch processing machines in a permutation flowshop

    • Purushothaman Damodaran
    • Anantha Gangadhara Rao
    • Siddharth Mestry

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 March 2012 Pages: 989 - 1000

34. A two-criteria objective function flexible flowshop scheduling problem with machine eligibility constraint

    • Bita Tadayon
    • Nasser Salmasi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 April 2012 Pages: 1001 - 1015

35. Scheduling part-time and mixed-skilled workers to maximize employee satisfaction

    • Mohammad Akbari
    • M. Zandieh
    • Behrouz Dorri

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 March 2012 Pages: 1017 - 1027

36. A probabilistic approach to variation propagation control for straight build in mechanical assembly

    • Z. Yang
    • S. McWilliam
    • T. Hussain

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 April 2012 Pages: 1029 - 1047

37. Optimization of the number of clusters: a case study on multivariate quality control results of segment installation

    • S. Mohammad E. Hosseininasab
    • Mohammad Javad Ershadi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 March 2012 Pages: 1049 - 1055

38. Genetic algorithm-based numerical optimization of powder compaction process with temperature-dependent cap plasticity model

    • Sh. Keshavarz
    • A. R. Khoei
    • Z. Molaeinia

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 1057 - 1072

39. Relations between transformational leadership, organizational learning, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and organizational performance: an empirical investigation of manufacturing firms

    • Ali Noruzy
    • Vahid Majazi Dalfard
    • Aliasghar Rezazadeh

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 March 2012 Pages: 1073 - 1085

40. A replenishment policy for perishable products with non-linear holding cost under stochastic supply lead time

    • Zeinab Sazvar
    • Armand Baboli
    • Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 April 2012 Pages: 1087 - 1098

41. A differential evolution algorithm to solve multi-skilled project portfolio scheduling problems

    • H. Kazemipoor
    • R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
    • A. Azaron

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 March 2012 Pages: 1099 - 1111

42. An ANP-based assessment model for lean enterprise transformation

    • Ibrahim Cil
    • Yusuf S. Turkan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 March 2012 Pages: 1113 - 1130

43. Toward learning autonomous pallets by using fuzzy rules, applied in a Conwip system

    • Afshin Mehrsai
    • Hamid-Reza Karimi
    • Bernd Scholz-Reiter

    Original Article 29 March 2012 Pages: 1131 - 1150

44. Effective factors on the price growth of petrochemical commodities in Tehran Mercantile Exchange

    • Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali Kermani
    • Alireza Aliahmadi
    • Masoud Nasiri

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 March 2012 Pages: 1151 - 1159

45. Algorithm for solving product mix problem in two-constraint resources environment

    • Fahimeh Tanhaei
    • Nasim Nahavandi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 31 March 2012 Pages: 1161 - 1167

46. Monitoring and diagnosis of the tapping process for product quality and automated manufacturing

    • Tien-I Liu
    • Junyi Lee
    • Zhang Wu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 April 2012 Pages: 1169 - 1175

47. From time-based competition (TBC) to quick response manufacturing (QRM): the evolution of research aimed at lead time reduction

    • Moacir Godinho Filho
    • Elizangela Veloso Saes

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 April 2012 Pages: 1177 - 1191

48. Processability investigatation of non-assembly mechanisms for powder bed fusion process

    • Xubin Su
    • Yongqiang Yang
    • Yonghua Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 April 2012 Pages: 1193 - 1200