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The synchronized individual production combines a high level of standardization with the necessary flexibility to manufacture customized products. However, it is not able to properly react to disturbances, like high priority jobs. To address this and other challenges, the company employees should be more actively involved into decision making processes, especially when it comes to production planning...
In a process collaboration, changes rarely confine themselves to a single company, but can spread over the network of partners, resulting in a whole process of negotiation. This paper employs techniques from the domains of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) and group decision to deal with change negotiation in process collaborations. In particular, it utilizes multi-criteria reasoning to model...
In the present day, developed economies that function on the basis of knowledge indicate better economic performance. Many studies have shown that one prerequisite for economic growth is the availability of information and new findings – when the conditions of creativity and high technology are also present (not only for companies but also for regions and entire economies). Economic players face ever...
Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are the key enabling for industrial businesses and economic growth. With the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the manufacturing environment, CPPS have a huge potential in terms of new business opportunities, mostly known as the 4th Industrial Revolution. The paper presents a CPPS architecture achieved within the European R&D project SelSus,...
The new robot generation, suitable for human-robot collaboration, is opening a new wide field of robot applications. In contrast to classical common industrial robot applications where robots completely are separated from humans, the collaborative robots include several options to bring them closer to humans. Both are able to work together in one work space with reasonable risks. In this paper the...
With the rapid development of new information technology, industrial change of intelligent manufacturing is arising around the whole world, which alters the manufacturing process, industrial chains and division system. Most developed countries speed up laying out industry and make new national strategies to revitalize manufacturing in order to promote the development of intelligent manufacturing and...
Increased competition and customer' expectations forces industries (1st) to react more quickly and agile to marked trends, (2nd) to shorten their product release cycles, and (3rd) to create innovative and intelligent products able to self-adapt to their owners' or licensee' requirements depending on the current context. This paper presents (1st) an overview of a novel ICT engineering platform for...
Building information modelling (BIM) is a digital technological-change that aid the transformation of construction industry delivery processes from its traditional methods into a digitalised model full of information. BIM has been identified as a modern delivery technology that is revolutionising construction industry operation globally, with capacity to reduce inefficiencies, improved performance,...
Collaborations among digital humanities and social science disciplines are not new, but they are increasingly responding to recent, increased examination of how “discourse” looks in public spheres (particularly U.S. North American). Whether focused on the involvement of social media during the U.S. Presidential campaign, re/definitions of “civility,” credibility of source information, or presumed...
Most often, if a new product is complex, a unique company doesn't have all the competences or means to achieve alone its development. In this case alliances must be formed to carry on the development project. However, alliances often meet difficulties in achieving their objectives. That is mainly due to difficulties of communication between partners, or to missing skills or means required to go further...
“R & D efficiency” and “systematic management” are two major key issues concerned in this research. This paper considers how to apply TRIZ methods to improve product lifecycle management in enterprise, and establishes the contents of product development portfolio at the design stage. The proposed scheme is founded on the four pillars of TRIZ: Functionality, Resource, Contradiction and Ideality...
In response to fast-growing and rapidly changing global markets, launching new products faster than competitors does not only assist enterprises in acquiring a larger market share, but also in reducing development lead time. However, owing to the intrinsically uncertain properties of new product development management, manufacturing companies often struggle with the dilemma of whether to increase...
This paper is intended to explore on the method of systematic innovation-TRIZ, and construct a cloud-based product development model. By planning of collaborative team design and product development process, we formulate a basis for collaborative design cloud which is connected to TRIZ theory. It then will be easy to apply TRIZ methods for product innovation and problem solving. The proposed framework...
The purpose of this paper is to describe interaction between intra-organizational knowledge sharing and inter-organizational knowledge sharing in collaborative learning process. Collaborative learning is defined as a learning process that occurs during interaction between more than two entities that have common purpose. Many previous research has shown that collaborative learning is an effective method...
Green innovation requires every enterprise, big-scale as well as the medium and small one, to act on developmental initiatives through innovation. This very idea urges business executors to conduct innovation, mainly for the medium scale, to be able to compete with the big one. In dealing with obstacles, the owner of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) must be able to innovate in order to elevate competitiveness...
The talk will focus on generation of energy from Biomass with special emphasis on thermochemical processes which include Pyrolysis, Gasification, Combustion and Fisher Tropsch Synthesis along with the practical examples. The talk will provide: • Clear viewpoint of various renewable biomass feedstock of importance to Pakistan and their availability and attributes for bio-energy production. (Biomass...
Logs play an important role in the maintenance of large-scale online service systems. When an online service fails, engineers need to examine recorded logs to gain insights into the failure and identify the potential problems. Traditionally, engineers perform simple keyword search (such as “error” and “exception”) of logs that may be associated with the failures. Such an approach is often time consuming...
Large scale collaboration is a fundamental characteristic of human society, and has recently manifested in the development and proliferation of online communities. These virtual social spaces provide an opportunity to explore large scale collaborations as natural experiments in which determinants of success can be tested. In order to do this, we first review previous work on meddling online communities...
The purpose of this 14-week study was to investigate the influence of digital storytelling (DST) on elementary school students' creative thinking and their responses to the use of DST in the English class. 27 sixth graders were assigned randomly in the experimental and control groups. It was found DST enhanced students' creative thinking significantly. Also, students' responses to the use of and English...
The importance of correlation analysis between cyber threat incidents using Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) from multiple sources is growing for the enhanced international collaboration on cyber threats. Well-analyzed CTI can increase capabilities to deter possible cyber threats. To this end, many standards have been proposed for efficient CTI expression and sharing to increase attack tractability...
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