Document Capturing Automation: Case Study

Case study: Automation Strategies at Volkswagen

In the global automotive industry, for decades, vehicle manufacturers have continually increased the level of automation of production systems in order to be competitive. However, there is a new trend to decrease the level of automation, especially in final car assembly, for the reasons of flexibility and economy. With the increasingly competitive automotive market, corporations often must make...

Clinical Laboratory Automation: A Case Study

BACKGROUND This paper presents a case study of an automated clinical laboratory in a large urban academic teaching hospital in the North of Italy, the Spedali Civili in Brescia, where four laboratories were merged in a unique laboratory through the introduction of laboratory automation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The analysis compares the preautomation situation and the new setting from a cost per...

A Manufacturing Collaboratory Case Study — Companion Document

Capturing expert knowledge with argumentation: a case study in bioinformatics

MOTIVATION The output of a bioinformatic tool such as BLAST must usually be interpreted by an expert before reliable conclusions can be drawn. This may be based upon the expert's experience, additional data and statistical analysis. Often the process is laborious, goes unrecorded and may be biased. Argumentation is an established technique for reasoning about situations where absolute truth or ...

Capturing, Formalising, And Analysing Cooperation Processes : A Case Study

An organization's success is highly dependent on its ability to cooperate, both within the organization and with other organizations. This is especially true for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet cooperation – internal or external – does not always succeed, and the reasons for failures or shortcomings are not always obvious. In this paper, an industrial case study involving Co-MAP,...