This brief paper compares the performances achieved with the conventional digital redesign techniques with those obtained with the modern global digital redesign methods such as the plant input mapping methods and the optimal digital redesign approach. The study based on a benchmark control system reveals that the reduced-order plant input mapping method, and not the optimal approach, offers wh...

In this paper, a novel observer-based digital redesign tracker is proposed to resolve the output tracking problem for nonlinear sampled data systems. Acquiring parameters via a hybrid design of EP-based iterative learning control (EP-ILC) and linear quadratic analog tracker (LQAT), the tracker possesses good tracking performance both in transient state response and in steady state response when...

The significance of systems configuration issues has been increased in many applied domains (e.g., software, hardware, manufacturing systems, supply chain systems, solving strategies). In the paper several system configuration problems are investigated: (i) search for (selection of) a set (structure) of system components, (ii) search for a set of compatible system components, (iii) reconfigurat...

In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in teamwork. The English workforce redesign experience offers important lessons for US policy makers. Redesigning the health care wor...

It is an established fact that majority of a product's cost is determined by its design. Hence, e ort should be directed to achieve a lower cost design without sacri cing the original functionality. A computer-aided product redesign system is proposed to provide help in generating assembly-oriented redesign by taking the robotic assembly constraints into consideration. The system operates in tw...

operator's role in industrial control centers takes place in time, which is one of the most important determinants of whether an expected action is going to be successful or not. in certain situations, due to the complex nature of the work, the existing interfaces and already prepared procedures do not meet the dynamic requirements of operator's cognitive demands, making the control tasks unnec...

A new algorithm for structural redesign by perturbation is developed. It allows for large changes between baseline and objective structures and can satisfy both modal and static displacement objectives. It is faster and more accurate than previously developed perturbation resizing methods because it advances incrementally to the objective structure using large admissible perturbations. The comp...

OBJECTIVES Redesign in healthcare has increased the focus on the needs of the patient. The redesign process typically involves a review of current practice using the patient pathway before considering possible improvements. The patient pathway can serve various roles, and it may be mapped in different ways using a variety of media. This paper reviews the evolution of the patient pathway compari...

European businesses today are showing a significant interest in the concept of business process redesign, not in the least because its advocates promise a dramatic decrease in costs and a similar increase in sales. Since information and communication technology seem to play enabling roles, one can expect electronic markets to be significantly contributing to the effects of business process rede...