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Mass customization plays a significant role for customer satisfaction and for reaching global markets in today's highly competitive changing world. However, customization brings companies extra costs because of the different tasks and scheduling and/or manufacturing issues of model variations. Companies in the manufacturing industry are in a pursuit of reducing their costs whilst increasing their...
The Joule Balance method, for the same purpose but different from the Watt Balance method, is going on at NIM for several years. The first measurement result of the Planck constant h is 6.6261(5)×10−34Js with a measurement uncertainty of 7.7 × 10−5. The further plan for improvement is discussed.
Evaluating association rules is an integral post process in association rule mining. Association rules are examined by measures for their interestingness. Different interestingness measures have been proposed. Given an association rule mining task, measures are assessed and selected against a set of user-specified properties. However, in practice, due to the subjectivity and imperfection in property...
Traditionally, Linear Prediction is used to predict future values of a signal using past values. The goal is to minimize prediction errors. In this paper, we propose a novel method of utilizing prediction errors to extract edges of images. In this method, smooth prediction errors are minimized while steep changes (larger errors) are amplified. Therefore, when applied to image edge detection, edge...
This paper proposes integrated production and inventory cycle in a whole green manufacturing supply chain network which consists of multiple-raw materials suppliers named as tier-2 suppliers, multiple-parts suppliers named as tier-1 suppliers, a manufacturer, multiple distributors, multiple retailers and a third party product collector. In a whole manufacturing supply chain network, tier-2 suppliers...
The precise measurement of Planck Constant h to establish a kind of quantum mass standard is an important but very difficult work. The Joule Balance method, for the same purpose but different from Watt Balance method, is going on in NIM for three years. The principle and progress are described.
In semiconductor manufacturing processes, mixed-products are usually fabricated on the same set of process tool with different recipes. Run-to-run controllers which based on the exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) statistic are probably the most frequently used in industry for the quality control of certain semiconductor manufacturing process steps. However, for mixed-product drifting process,...
Schrodinger equation and Poisson equation are solved self-consistently for Al0.5Ga0.5N/GaN heterojunctions grown along the c axis, then the distribution of electrons and the exact energy of all the bounded states confined in heterojunctions are gotten, and the electrons are found to take up the first two subbands. Considerable magnitude of Rashba spin splitting for the first subband at the Fermi level...
Finite element matrix equations are derived from a two-dimensional, piezoelectric high frequency laminated plate theory. Two-layer ZnO/Si and three-layer ZnO/SiO/sub 2//Si thin film resonators vibrating at the fundamental thickness shear mode are investigated using the finite element models. Straight crested waves propagating in a resonator are studied. Resonant frequency, mode shapes and electromechanical...
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