OBJECT To enhance the surgeon's dexterity and maneuverability in the deep surgical field, the authors developed a master-slave microsurgical robotic system. This concept and the results of preliminary experiments are reported in this paper. METHODS The system has a master control unit, which conveys motion commands in six degrees of freedom (X, Y, and Z directions; rotation; tip flexion; and ...

BACKGROUND As new technology is developed and scientific evidence demonstrates strategies to improve the quality of care, it is essential that surgeons keep current with their skills. Rural surgeons need efficient and targeted continuing medical education that matches their broader scope of practice. Developing such a program begins with an assessment of the learning needs of the rural surgeon....

Recently, a stream of project management research has recognized the critical role of boundary objects in the organization of projects. In this paper, we investigate how one advanced scheduling tool, the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), is used as a temporal boundary object at various stages of complex projects. The IMS is critical to megaprojects which typically span long periods of time and ...

The evolution of industrial "rms has recently passed from a strong growth phase to a phase where there is a greater complexi"cation of products: widening the range of products in catalogues, diversi"cation and personalization of models. The current trend is to use, with production management techniques such as classical manufacturing resource planning (MRP2), the concept of two level master pro...

BACKGROUND As the demand for health care services increases, the need to improve patient flow between departments has likewise increased. Understanding how the master surgical schedule (MSS) affects the inpatient wards and exploiting this relationship can lead to a decrease in surgery cancellations, a more balanced workload, and an improvement in resource utilization. We modeled this relationsh...

A tablet-based fluoroscopy simulator offers the opportunity to practice percutaneous pinning of supracondylar fractures. Acquiring skills in visuo-spatial and hand-eye coordination are central development safe surgical technique. Mobility ease setup without need for real enables repetition procedure at a time suit residents' schedule.

This paper considers the hierarchical production planning (HPP) concept to solve a production planning problem in the process industry in a fuzzy environment. The adopted fuzzy HPP consists of two levels in which a fuzzy aggregate production planning (FAPP) model is developed in the first level, and then a fuzzy disaggregate production planning (FDPP) model is developed at the second level. The...

Id: SCML10356 C. Chatras, V. Giard, M. Sali LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place de Lattre de Tassigny F75775 Paris, France Abstract In global mass customization supply chains, the geographical dispersion of plants complicates flow control. Because of the high product diversity, the MPS of the final assembly lines is defined for Alternative Modules (AMs). Analysis of the visible diversity,...

Production management is a set of decisions that must reflect a compromise between customers’ satisfaction and production criteria such as cost, delay and quality. The goal of production management is to ensure the continued success of the firm. Industrial planning plays a central part in this one. The latter can be divided into three hierarchical decisional levels: the strategic level deals wi...