Biomass gasification converts into syngas through the gasification process is promising for renewable energy utilization. Although gasification is a sustainable and environmentally-friendly technology for value-added ...
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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are intricate mathematical models, drawing inspiration from the biological nervous system, and offering intelligence alongside nonparametric capabilities. The efficacy of ANNs heavily...
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Here, we report a bubble breakup regime that is mediated by a sudden channel expansion in a microfluidic device. Bubbles generated at a cross-junction periodically break into smaller daughter bubbles, upon entering an...
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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population-based stochastic optimization technique, originally developed by Eberhart and Kennedy, inspired by simulation of a social psychological metaphor instead of the surviva...
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Industry 4.0 has recently become an ubiquitous topic of study both by academics and practitioners. Beyond the technology application domain, one major issue that most organizations have to face when structuring their ...
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For an organization to develop a sustainable position in today's competitive and volatile market, efforts in increasing its maturity of Industry 4.0 thinking and implementation need to be performed. Inside the con...
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(纸本)9780983762461
For an organization to develop a sustainable position in today's competitive and volatile market, efforts in increasing its maturity of Industry 4.0 thinking and implementation need to be performed. Inside the context of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data/Analytics are concepts that are receiving an increased attention of both academics and industry practitioners. However, their implementation is challenging and requires a high level of competences, both in skilled labor and financial resources related to technology selection and implementation. There is a diversity of scenarios in which those two concepts can be applied, especially in large manufacturing enterprises, where large amounts of data are generated, and need to be interpreted, helping managers make better decisions. Hence, it is necessary to organize and better structure projects that conceive, manage, develop and implement IoT and Big Data/Analytics technologies. The objective of this study is to develop a case study presenting the architecture of a small IoT and Big Data/Analytics project in an automotive company. Results suggest that to promote such projects in a larger scale, organizations need to greatly enhance their infrastructure to develop the necessary integration between IoT components and Big Data/Analytics tools.
In the present work we introduce a system identification framework where no a priori information on the system to be identified is available. Focusing in the specific case of radial basis functions neural networks mod...
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In the present work we introduce a system identification framework where no a priori information on the system to be identified is available. Focusing in the specific case of radial basis functions neural networks models, we insert the choice of the model complexity and its inputs in the optimization procedure together with the model parameters, aiming at accuracy, model validity and regularization in a multiobjective approach. The multicriteria problem is solved by means of the multiobjective cuckoo search, which is based on an archiving technique and the crowding distance metric. Simulation results are promising when the methodology is applied to identify a robot arm given solely input and output data.
The manufacturing strategy design process is crucial for an organization's competitiveness because of its role in bridging the gap between strategy and operations. The dynamic and ever-changing nature of today'...
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(纸本)9780983762447
The manufacturing strategy design process is crucial for an organization's competitiveness because of its role in bridging the gap between strategy and operations. The dynamic and ever-changing nature of today's businesses makes this a difficult task, extremely influenced by internal and external factors. There is a need for a method that can provide the manufacturing function new attributes for its strategy development as a dynamic model that operates in a complex environment. This work addresses this concern by analyzing a well-established framework for manufacturing strategy design composed of six parts and based on a process approach. The analysis is carried out by considering the alignment of the aims of each of the parts of this framework to a set of enterprise engineering guidelines, that determine how well-structured the process from this framework is. Guidelines verify process formalization, process organizational structure, process synchronization, explicit considerations of performance expectations, exception handling, and incorporation of change and improvement mechanisms. The study reveals that there are some gaps in the process regarding the guidelines and further, suggests improvements in it to fill these gaps. The paper develops new aims to the analyzed manufacturing strategy design framework and shows its relevance to the process. This represents advancement to operations management by proposing a reviewed view of the manufacturing strategy design process through an enterprise engineering perspective. Moreover, it presents a process that can contribute to organizations that intend to develop a customized model, adapted to its reality that conciliates external and internal visions, the dynamics of its environment, and the consideration of quanti-qualitatively activities that recognizes all involved stakeholders.
This paper is emphases on the financial impact of RFID system on the healthcare. The main obstacle of RFID implementation is the high costs hence the area of application must be very selective. We decide on the Obstet...
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The paper proposes a model for expanded audit of operations strategy that considers the social, economic and environmental in the process of formulation and review of evidence to validate a sustainable operation. The ...
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The paper proposes a model for expanded audit of operations strategy that considers the social, economic and environmental in the process of formulation and review of evidence to validate a sustainable operation. The proposed model calls for the operations strategy of an organization should be linked to 3 vertices: sustainability of operations, strategic indicators and auditing. A management audit aims to provide a thorough analysis of the company taking into account the effects of the changes caused by uncontrollable external variables and thus the challenge of being the first international standard for managing corporate responsibility, focusing on audit and social reporting, the AA1000, presents a strategic integration of sustainability indicators that, using the principles of management audit, planning determines an audit to validate sustainable operations. Thus, the main contribution of this work to the operations strategy is to propose an extensible model that allows auditing incorporate the new demands that are imposed on managers dynamically, but that meet the high performance sustainable.
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