Adige S.p.A. is a world leader company in projecting, producing and selling lasertube cutting systems. Two different systems are available, one based on fusion and the other on oxidation of the material that has to be cut. Both these techniques require the presence of a laser beam well focalised on the material and an assistance gas stream, used to eject the melted material. Until now paths for...

The final goal of strategic management is to implement strategic plans, Therefore the alignment between corporate strategy and functional strategy is considerable. This study investigates the degree of alignment between HR strategy and corporate strategy of the national gas company. Data collection was conducted by questionnaire by 51 questions. The content validity of questionnaire was assesse...

Numerous reasons including lower carbon and sulfur emissions have led to the rapid growth of natural gas (NG) demand. However, more than one-third of world NG reserves are stranded, i.e., either remote (e.g., offshore) or in regions with saturated markets. This reality makes the investment decisions complex and uncertain for NG field developers. In this study, we consider the case of a company ...

Company default prediction is a widely studied topic as it has a significant impact on banks and firms. Moreover, nowadays, due to the global financial crisis, there is a need to use even more advanced methods (such as soft computing techniques) which can pick up the signs of financial distress on time to evaluate firms (especially small firms). Thus, the author proposes a Genetic Algorithms (G...

Nowadays, with the presence of technology in the human life, organizational levels have received a lot of changes which affected the operational aspects and the organizational structures from traditional to modern. Therefore, this study investigated the role of technology management to predict operational performance as the most important sources for gaining competitive advantages. It aimed to ...

INTRODUCTION Under a Small Business Innovative Research program sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency, Pacific Advanced Technology (PAT, the parent company to Gas Imaging Technology, LLC) is developing an approach to infrared spectral imaging that will enable production of a much smaller, more robust, lower cost optical imaging system for the Smart LDAR community than is available today. This...

High fossil fuel prices have rekindled interest in nuclear power. This paper identifies specific nuclear characteristics making it unattractive to merchant generators in liberalized electricity markets, and argues that non-fossil fuel technologies have an overlooked ‘option value’ given fuel and carbon price uncertainty. Stochastic optimization estimates the company option value of keeping open...

In this paper we discuss the scenario of Petroleum Engineering projects at Petrobras, a large Brazilian governmental oil & gas company. Based on this scenario, we propose a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a Collaborative Problem Solving Environment (CPSE), that we call Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE), responsible for controlling and executing specialized engineering projects...