The paper discusses the role of process and robotics simulation in the automotive industry. Real-world applications of simulation in the body shop, paint shop and general assembly areas of a vehicle assembly plant are given in addition to Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and supply chain logistics applications. Uses of simulation during the different phases of an engineering project are add...

Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) is a representative pairwise learningmethod for optimizing recommendationmodels. It is widely known that the performance of BPR depends largely on the quality of the negative sampler. In this short paper, we make two contributions with respect to BPR. First, we find that sampling negative items from the whole space is unnecessary and may even degrade the perf...

However, despite the significant growth of the BPR concept, not all organisations embarking on BPR projects achieve their intended result. Hammer and Champy (1993) estimate that as many as 70 percent do not achieve the dramatic results they seek. Having BPR repeatedly at the top of the list of management issues in annual surveys of critical information systems reflects executives' failure to ei...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the approaches towards implementation of business process reengineering (BPR), and to provide some evidence as to which approach offers a greater chance of success. Design/methodology/approach – A hospital case analysis is used to study where both top-down/ participative BPR and enterprise resource planning (ERP)-driven BPR were used to reengine...

In a previous paper [5], the authors investigated extensively the Landweber-Araki Real cobordism spectrum MR ([1, 7]), and its stable summand at p = 2 called BPR. An Adams-like spectral sequence based on BPR was constructed, and homotopy groups of many spectra related to BPR were calculated. The goal of the present note is to begin investigating the question as to how BPR-theory contributes to ...

OBJECTIVES We examined by thallium-201 scintigraphy whether exercise-induced abnormal blood pressure response (BPR) is related to myocardial ischemia. BACKGROUND Hemodynamic instabilities during exercise in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are considered to be caused by abnormal reflex control of vascular resistance. METHODS In 105 patients with HCM, exercise thallium scintig...

This paper reports on an oil/retail petrol supply chain which was undergoing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) exercise. The paper models and analyses the effect of information sharing on the performance parameters (inventory costs and bullwhip effect) of an actual Serbian oil industry supply chain. The main idea is to show through business process modelling how the BPR of existing process...

Reengineering continues to gather momentum in the business community. Surveys show that 45% to 88% of large p corporations are involved in business process reengineering (BPR) projects and many others plan to begin projects soon. Since the near-simultaneous publication in 1990 of two articles on reengineering in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Managentent Review, reengineering has been on the...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an essential tool before an information system project implementation. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects definitely require the standardization and fixation of business processes from customer order to shipment. Therefore, ERP implementations are well proven to be coupled with BPR, although the extend and timing of BPR with respect to ERP implem...