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This paper examines the difference in levels of psychological empowerment in Malaysian small and large oilfield service company's field employees in order to understand in which of the settings psychological empowerment strategy is most effective to the point the employees really feel empowered. According to [1], size-related characteristics of small companies usually manifest in challenges such as...
This document aims to present the creation of a mentoring program to be applied in developing industrial engineers students, while interns at the companies, into future junior industrial engineers. Its objective is to contribute to a better professional performance as engineers. It is a case-study for the RIP region (including the cities of Resende, Itatiaia and Porto Real), which is located in an...
The German initiative Industry 4.0 will involve amongst other issues networking and integration of several different parties (e.g., manufacturing companies, suppliers, customers, sub-contractors) through value networks. This initiative underpins that this collaborative partnership will only be feasible if standardization and open standards are available. For this purpose a reference architecture is...
As a kind of auxiliary facility, countdown display units for traffic lights have been widely used in China. It can display the remaining time of the corresponding traffic light, so that road users can know the real-time change of the traffic signals. However, since the old national standard for countdown display units lacks unified setting requirements for countdown display units, the setting of countdown...
This paper will provide a general overview of different characteristics of transmission poles and general design considerations included in the ASCE Standard ASCE/SEI 48-11 Design of Steel Transmission Pole Structures. Information related to pole geometry and typical single pole configurations is provided. Then, information about connection between sections and types of foundations typically used...
A low-level code of practice is presented in this paper to help information security (IS) risk management professionals manage enterprise IS risks effectively and efficiently using COBIT 5 framework1. The proposed code of practice is the result of the experience gained by the authors over years through working with clients in many industries implementing IS risk management using different international...
This document analyzes the problems of college common code management, proposes standardized methods to unify common code and builds a management system, which can support the multiple version of common code and archive the history tracing of common code data.
This paper highlights an immediate need for renewable generation developers, manufacturers, utilities and industry standardization institutes to jointly address a challenge of capacitor switching transient immunity in inverter-based wind or solar farms. The need was identified from wide-area operation records which showed partial or full generation loss in coincidence with routine utility-owned capacitor...
The lack of commitment to create quality work is a long-standing problem in education, and it is a direct negative driver of student performance, disturbing students' ability to: apply imparted concepts, build team quality work, and foster industry's economy. The quality of delivered work is poor mainly because students do not spend needed time and effort to review their own work; e.g., research papers,...
OSHA revised 29 CFR 1910.269 Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution along with 1926 Subpart V for construction regulations on April 11, 2014. These revisions include new requirements for transferring electrical safety information between the host employer and contract employer and new requirements for analyzing the arc flash hazard and providing the appropriate arc-rated clothing...
In this paper, we implemented a scalable plug-in middleware to process different HL7 versions (Version 2, Version 3, FHIR). The middleware solves incompliance, prevents security breaches, and increases the message transfer reliability. The middleware consists of four components, each having certain logic. Some of these components are optional, in that, the HL7 message is not required to pass through...
Steel rails used in the transport sector and in industry are designed and manufactured to support high stress levels generated by high-speed and heavy-loaded modern trains. In the rail manufacturing process, one of the key stages is rolling, where fast, accurate and repeatable rail profile measurement is a major challenge. In this paper, a rail profile measurement system for rail rolling mills based...
We propose new families of optimal binary locally repairable codes, called crown codes and ring codes, that achieve optimal code rate for joint information locality (r1, r2)i = (2, 3) and (r1, r2)i = (2, 4), respectively. The joint information locality is a set of numbers of symbols for repairing various erasure patterns of information symbols. We simplify the code design problem utilizing simple...
ICT is utilized at many aspects of the society and business. Educational institutions and industries are expected to collaborate to build a consistent ecosystem for education, human resource development and fair evaluation of ICT professionals. In this paper, we analyze relationship among ICT curriculum, ICT qualification, ICT bodies of knowledge and various ICT task profiles. Since they are the major...
Information and communication technology (ICT) is essential as infrastructure in the modern society. High level ICT professionals are strongly required. Universities, ICT industries and ICT qualification bodies are expected to collaborate to build a consistent system for education, training and evaluation to develop such high level ICT professionals. In this paper, we propose a web-based assessment...
This paper describes Variant, a testing framework for projects attempting to locate variants of malware families through similarity testing. The framework is a series of tests and data standards to evaluate recall and precision in tools that attempt to statically measure similarity in implementation of compiled software, specifically in determining code reuse in compiled software to identify malware...
In packaging industry, the duration of the carton folding plays a fundamental role in the production process; in particular in the erection process when each panel rotates around the die-pressed lines called creases. Their bending response can be very complex, depending on forming and environment conditions. The crease mechanical properties, such as geometrical parameters, temperature, moisture and...
In highly regulated industries (such as the manufacturing of medical devices) establishing and operating a risk management process for potentially hazardous products is well prescribed and described. However, there is precious little guidance on the choice of risk acceptance criteria which can lead to loss of product quality and potential harm to life or health.
The Atlas Transformation Language (ATL) is today a de-facto standard in model-driven development. It is understood by the community that methods for exhaustively verifying such transformations provide an important pillar for achieving a stronger adoption of model-driven development in industry.
In the field of high performance computing (HPC), energy consumption is an increasingly important consideration. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Power benchmark and the Green500 are two well-known power evaluation methods. However, the former focuses on data centers and the latter concentrates on compute-intensive applications. This paper focuses on the power evaluation of single...
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