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The digitalization and its corresponding technologies have a fundamental impact on value creation strategies and business models of companies across different industries, including the manufacturing and automation industry. The emergence of complex and dynamic ecosystems is one of the expected impacts. The present research project will analyze the business models of ecosystems in the manufacturing...
In Industry 4.0 the optimal allocation of a pool of available workers is a very important issue. Solving this problem can improve the performance of the company and the life of workers with positive returns on productivity. Moreover, from a computational perspective, this problem is extremely interesting because it could have a combinatorial explosion and become very hard to solve. In this paper,...
Todays production processes are becoming more and more flexible. Customers frequently demand specific production steps that fit to their processes. This leads to a needed flexibility for systems that are used to support decision making processes and the production itself. In this paper an approach is presented that uses process definition coming from an integrated enterprise modelling for connecting...
In the article we consider the implementation of the matrix information management project technology in the form of PRP-system, which is an example of a new class of Project Management systems. The functions, structure and components are described. Also we represented its unique advantages over existing traditional Project Management information systems, e.g. simulation modeling and product planning.
This article analyzes the management of critical knowledge within a manufacturing company whose workers should be supported by a knowledge management tool based on a data obtained from 69 Polish Manufacturing Enterprises from Lubuskie region and from 23 German Manufacturing Enterprises from Brandenburg region. It focuses on the approach of the use of an FAHP (Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process) method...
To avoid that defective units reach downstream production stages and cause a considerable amount of costs, quality control steps must be implemented. However, quality control steps cause further costs. Implemented sampling inspections are an opportunity to check the quality of lots within the production. In order to keep the costs to a minimum, the production planning must determine sample plans which...
This paper describes the implementation of a manufacturing monitoring system using RFID, wireless, and plug-and-play technologies. The system gathered information about time and work in process (WIP), enabling process waste identification, production according to takt time, activity balance, and production capacity assessment. The method comprises the development of an RFID reader, a middleware, a...
An experimental investigation was conducted to explore the feasibility of replacing the current inspection method with 3D scanning for daily quality inspection in the automotive industry. This experiment was focused on inspecting stamped body parts due to the significant number of inspection points that could be time consuming for inspection activities. Two inspection methods were performed which...
● An in-package interconnect for in-package memory application in InFO package has been demonstrated ■ Technology: TSMC 16FF + InFO ● 89.6GByte/s total bandwidth is achieved with 256-DQ operating in 2.8Gbit/s and 0.3V-swing ■ Low power: IO (0.062pJ/bit); PHY (0.424pJ/bit) ■ Low latency: Write (4.75T+1.5T=6.25T); Read (2+1.875=3.875T) ● 0.3V signal integrity on the un-probed IO has been clarified ■...
The increasing complexity of software-intensive systems (SIS) has led to a completely new concept: Very Large-Scale Requirements Engineering (VLSRE), where the sheer number of requirements typically exceeds 10,000. Design for eXcellence (DfX) principles and their execution have been studied in different contexts for decades. However, DfX has not been in the focus of the Requirements Engineering (RE)...
In this paper, a cloud-based collaborative manufacturing network platform is proposed. The platform enables supply network partners situated in different geographic locations to have access to the OEM's planning data allowing to carry out purchase, production and deliver planning activities simultaneously and collaboratively, on any operating system. The proposed solution integrates the OEMs' legacy...
Within the last few years, event processing has been gaining a lot of attention as it represents a powerful technology to establish a real-time monitoring and situation detection. The real-time detection of situations allows a timely reaction and helps to reduce the damage made by harmful situations or increase the benefit of opportunities. Through the mind shift of companies from reactivity towards...
Increasing numbers of variants and versions in the domain of automated Production Systems (aPS) demand appropriate methods to handle this variability. While software product lines (SPLs), often in combination with feature modelling, are already well established in the domain of information systems, up to now SPLs are rarely used in the domain of aPS. Also, SPLs for aPS need to include variants and...
Evaluating the sustainability performance of the most suitable automotive manufacturing company is challenging due to the multi-dimensional nature of the evaluation process and the existence of subjectiveness and imprecision in the decision making process. To effectively deal with this decision making problem, this paper presents a fuzzy multicriteria decision making method for evaluating the sustainability...
Medical devices with measuring functions play a crucial role in diagnostics and treatment of patients is health care establishments. Both the testing and manufacturing guidelines laid out in the medical devices directive MDD 93/42, as well as the recommendations for electrical medical equipment in IEC 60601 and IEC 62353 are largely not implemented. The majority of the guidelines that are being followed...
This research aims to develop and analyze a model about the explanatory factors of the capital structure through financial leverage (leverage) of manufacturing companies of Ecuador. To meet the goal has been realized a sample of 113 manufacturing companies that produce textiles for the years 2000 to 2012, the same information was obtained from the superintendency of companies of Ecuador. The methodology...
This paper empirically estimates the impact of service quality on the market value of the firm. We use a firm's receipt of a service award as a proxy for its service effectiveness. Based on data from 232 announcements of service awards given to the company between 2006 and 2015, we find that award announcements are associated with statistically significant positive stock market reactions. Our results...
Current efforts in manufacturing and logistics research focus on developing innovative systems that enable enterprises to respond faster and more effective to changing market conditions, thus, paving the way for the fourth industrial revolution. Amongst others, an intensified collaboration within supply chains on the basis of virtualized processes is agreed to be a promising approach. Especially also...
The low-carbon economy is an economic form which expenses the lowest carbon emissions, environmental and economic cost to get the future development. As the most important microeconomic activity units, manufacturing companies are the pillars to develop a low-carbon economy because of their huge energy consumption and emission. The performance of manufacturing companies' operation and development mainly...
Establishing deep understanding of customers and their perception of value is a prerequisite to deliver commercially successful products in today's hostile business environment. This paper elaborates on to which degree companies focus on customer value, along with their collaborative practices with customers undertaken in product development. Emphasis has been placed on comparing such practices in...
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