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In many manufacturing plants, there is a major problem in the internal logistics due to the high number of products, machines, and routes, especially in those manufacturing plants that produce low weight products. For example, many industries such as footwear, toys, plastic household goods and industrial products, among others, require assemblage products in small assembly lines, in small and customized...
In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the parallel solution of combinatorial problems. The main idea behind this approach is to explore sub-domains of the solution space making use of different metaheuristics. This is developed in three basic steps: a main computing node sends an initial condition to his workers. The workers make use of tabu search and simulated annealing algorithms and...
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In an increasingly competitive environment the successful functioning of any business requires continuous improvement of services, expanding the range of products and range of services, standardization, and implementation of new busines ideas, establishment and dissemination of innovative solutions on the market. The implementation of such measures were carried out in a well-developed business projects...
In the last years, several papers in literature have treated the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems in neutrosophic environment. This approach had a starting point the fact that in many real life problems, decision makers have indeterminate, inconsistent or incomplete information about the alternatives with respect to criteria. A brief survey on the applications of neutrosophic sets in...
The complexity and specificity of stability analysis applied to interpolative-type control structures makes the study of such property a difficult, almost impossible task — at least in the analytical manner. Therefore, a better solution could be represented by the numerical approach. In this context, this paper starts with developing some methods and techniques with applicability for analysis of the...
Deepens the theoretical issues related to the Information and Knowledge Engineering with emphasis on reflection about its importance in the field of scientific research and social contribution to the development of the country. The paper presents these theoretical concepts: Information Engineering as the creation process and systematization of a volume of value-added data to a particular business...
Ports can be considered as a mixed network composed of different stakeholders such as private service provider companies, public organizations, professional and social associations. Each of them has its own aims and the port community exercises the role of coordinator, taking on responsibility for governance. In general, the interaction among the different actors generates strategic synergy, contributing...
The recognition of Intellectual Capital as a source of competitive advantage and differentiation element for organizations requires an application of new management strategies that include this feature. Considering the importance of the Accounting Information System (AIS) in organizations, the research has the main objective to investigate the contributions of accounting as Management Information...
This study focuses on providing a framework to assist the technology evaluation to produce stable arsenic compounds in mining in Chile. Technological processes offer different attributes to show consideration for the environment, arsenic capacity reduction, process viability and efficiency. The objective is to determine the most appropriate technology for arsenic abatement that comes from the casting...
Cloud Computing (CC) is a technology that surely brings innovations in today's business world, more and more companies around the world are widely incorporating this technology into their businesses. From a technical, as well as organizational point of view transferring enterprise IT to the Cloud is a complex task. Different factors have to be taken into consideration in order to make a right choice...
In this article we analyze quantitatively the gains of coordination in a closed loop supply chain context for different levels of uncertainty about returns. The novel characteristic of this study is to evaluate quantitatively the value of coordination for operational decisions (in the context of inventory management decisions). Thus, we find it interesting to verify its validity in the reverse logistics...
The design of a warehouse or distribution center (DC) has become an essential tool for the optimization of the supply chain in most industries. Energy consumption in this type of facilities is an important issue which has not received much attention in the scientific community which has focused instead in two-dimensional routing optimization. In this paper the problem of designing a rectangular warehouse...
The proliferation and popularization of new instruments for measuring different types of electrophysiological variables, has generated the need to store huge volumes of information, corresponding to the records obtained by applying this instruments on experimental subjects. Together with this must be added the data derived from the analysis and purification processes. Moreover, several stages involved...
During robot welding operations in the manufacturing industry there is a need to modify on-line the welding path due to a mismatch in the position of the components to be welded. These positioning errors are due to multiple factors such as ageing of the components in the part conveyor system, clamp fixtures, disturbances, etc. Therefore, robot reprogramming is needed which requires a stop in the production...
This written paper presents aspects concerning the implementation of the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in the resolution of a redundant serial robot kinematics. The kinematics solutions are divided into two categories: direct kinematics solutions and inverse kinematics solutions. To be able to control a robot the most important solutions are the ones for the inverse kinematics since...
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