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Until 1976, the Portuguese electrical sector was fragmented into several companies operating at regional or even local scale. In the aftermaths of the April Revolution of1974, there was large-scale nationalization program to which the electrical sector was no exception. Electricidade de Portugal (EDP) was created in 1976 with the fusion of 13 nationalized companies. Several development programs were...
The technical state evaluation of Vehicle Equipment is a necessary step to operate and support. Considered conditions such as technical characters, operate environments and support elements, this paperresearches its technical state cluster, which is based on BIC(Schwarz's Bayesian Criterion). The conclusion reveals that BIC is accurate and concise to cluster the technical state of vehicle equipment.
As industries pursues safer workplaces and implementing electrical safety programs they face major challenges in engaging the worker and how to ensure knowledge retention. Over the past 5 years we have gone on a journey starting with a very small group of electricians focused on creating and delivering training to their peers. In 2015 this had blossomed to 160 electricians across four different areas...
Electrical safety - Where were we yesterday? Where are we today? Where will we be in the future? The safety culture is continuing to evolve to provide a safer work environment for people working around electrical equipment. To improve electrical safety, it takes commitment to continuous improvement of the electrical safety culture. New thoughts and ideas to improve electrical safety are critical....
While performing a maintenance repair procedure on a 13.8kV switch, an electrical worker omitted several safety steps in the procedure. An accidental contact with the deenergized line, coupled with the omission of these critical safety steps, resulted in the worker discharging the capacitive build-up on the line sustaining a significant electrical shock and putting the worker's heart into fibrillation...
Here we describe the design and usability evaluation of a mixed reality prototype to simulate the role of a tank platoon leader, who is an individual who not only is a tank commander, but also directs a platoon of three other tanks with their own respective tank commanders. The domain of tank commander training has relied on physical simulators of the actual Abrams tank and encapsulates the whole...
As manufacturing firms (MFs) experience increasing competition in the global economy, it is vital to seek competitive advantage through the continuous improvement of performance within manufacturing processes. This requires a systematic approach to enhance performance by engaging staff at all levels to effectively take part in performance-enhancing efforts. The implementation of Toyota Kata has been...
With the emergence of a knowledge driven economy, these are times of brisk business for institutions providing training to professionals. The flipside of this is that there is an ever increasing demand on them to create a growing number of new courses, and serve an ever increasing flow of customers ata faster and faster pace. In its various flavours, this problem is faced by MOOC/online course providers,...
The PSP (Personal Software Process) is a set of practices with the aim of improving the work of software engineers from the point of view of schedule management and personal productivity. Both managers and employees of software development companies can take advantage of these techniques with the aim of improve the efficiency of the company and its personal work. This paper presents several experiences...
Many security related big data problems, including document, traffic, and system log analysis require analysis of unstructured text. Consider the task of analyzing company documents for secure storage. Some might be too sensitive to put on a public cloud and require private storage with associated backup overhead, some may safe on the cloud in encrypted form, and some may be sufficiently non-sensitive...
Cooperative behavior enhances an organization's ability to reach goals. The present study investigated whether and how prepaid incentives and promised incentives influenced cooperation differently among organization members in an experiment. Results showed that promised incentives appear more effective in terms of cooperative behavior than prepaid incentives, and the perception of benefit is a mediator...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have established a reputation in the world of business as indispensables tools that integrate all departments and functions across a company into a single computer system. However, implementing an ERP system does not always result in enhanced organizational performance. In order to ensure successful implementation, companies should study the critical factors...
The purpose of the paper is to provide generalized knowledge about the education and training within the Quality Engineering and Management study programs with the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the environment of CRELABTE virtual laboratories, which enable simulation of specific situations from industrial practice. The infrastructure of CRELABTE consists of hardware...
Serious games have been used for several years in order to offer continuous and professional training to the companies employees. These games have unevenly affected different fields, they are less present in certain areas (industry) than others (medical, service, …) because of inherent specificity. In this article, we propose an approach to facilitate the implementation of a playful scenario dedicated...
Succession planning and career path are often used to develop the employee career path in the organization based on their interest and capabilities. The problem is a lack of integrated information system to help the company in finding the successors of vacant positions and in mapping out the employee career path. Several methods were used in this research such as questionnaire and benchmarking with...
This paper discuss on developing a system called Entreportfolio as an effort to help entrepreneurs create industry networks quickly and easily via online system. The target users are mainly entrepreneurs including startup, SME, agencies and researcher. By collecting entrepreneurs profile in a system and connects entrepreneurial agencies, SMEs and researcher under one stop center, this system is linked...
the goal of implementation for ERP systems are improving performance business process and achieve work more efficiency and productivity. The ERP systems as basic to consider evaluating performance achievement as a tool for analyzing, evaluating and support decision making. In the reality, the managers have problems using ERP systems to making decisions and ultimately improve the synchronization of...
This paper is made with purpose to assess Knowledge Management Maturity in the PT Premier Oil Indonesia, so the company know what level they have and propose suggestion as an improvement for a rise to a higher level or the highest level.
Researchers have designed a decision support system for granting discounts by using the Naïve Bayes method. Naïve Bayes can be used for decisions to grant discounts within a multi-criteria system. The criteria are determined by the company, the purchase of some items, the status of the product, the big day, price ranges. The management system helps the company in providing discounts accordingly. The...
Blended learning is a modern approach in education that can totally reshape academic environment. Another trend in education is Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from leading universities or companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Dell Technologies, etc. Also many vendors (hardware and software companies) made its training available for lay public for free through traditional e-learning systems or...
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