The nature of input materials is changed as long as the product reaches the consumer in many types of manufacturing processes. In designing and improving multi-stage systems, the study of the steps separately may not lead to the greatest possible improvement in the whole system, therefore the study of inputs and outputs of each stage can be effective in improving the output quality characterist...

Articular cartilage defects at the knee joint are being identified and treated with increasing frequency. Chondrocytes may have strongest potential to generate high-quality repair tissue within the defective region, in particular when large diameter defects are present. Autologous chondrocyte implantation is not available in every country. We present a case where we spontaneously covered an acu...

A status of early series production of the barrel hybrids and modules of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) is reported. 120 hybrids (with ASIC’s) and 98 modules were fabricated in Japan by the mid. August 2002 and gone through extensive quality assurance tests. Defective channels were found much less than 1% in hybrids and still less than 1% in modules. No increase of defective channels was...

In this paper we consider defective products and Taguchi’s cost of poor quality in the economic order quantity (EOQ) model. We assume that the product quality performs a normal distribution function, and the Taguchi’s poor quality cost has been involved. From our analysis, it has been found that the annual profit will be decreased if the poor quality of product and Taguchi’s quality cost are in...

This paper deals with the single machine multi-product lot scheduling problem in which defective items are produced in any production run of each product. We have adopted the common cycle scheduling policy and assumed that the setup times for production of each product can be non-zero. Further, we have assumed that defective items will be reworked and the inspection costs during the normal prod...

Protein functionalization constitutes a particularly interesting target for biopharmaceutical applications, which increasingly relies on monodisperse proteinpolymer conjugates having controllable therapeutic properties.[1,2] Proteins modified with precisely controlled polymeric materials have the potential to exhibit a wide range of improved biological effects.[3] Linear polymers have been stud...

The healing of graphene grown from a metallic substrate is investigated using tight-binding Monte Carlo simulations. At temperatures (ranging from 1000 to 2500 K), an isolated graphene sheet can anneal a large number of defects suggesting that their healings are thermally activated. We show that in the presence of a nickel substrate we obtain a perfect graphene layer. The nickel-carbon chemical...

The correct decoding of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins is an essential cellular task. The translational process is monitored by several quality control (QC) mechanisms that recognize defective translation complexes in which ribosomes are stalled on substrate mRNAs. Stalled translation complexes occur when defects in the mRNA template, the translation machinery, or the nascent polypeptide ...

Appearances of products are important to companies as they reflect the quality their manufacture customers. Nowadays, visual inspection is conducted by human inspectors. This research attempts automate this process using Convolutional AutoEncoders (CAE). Our models were trained images non-defective parts. Previous on autoencoders has reported that accuracy image regeneration can be improved add...