Objective: To evaluate treatment times for traditional and self-ligating orthodontic brackets and determine if the use of SmartClipTM Self-Ligating Brackets improve orthodontic treatment efficiency. Methodology: More than 1,000 orthodontic practitioners were surveyed in the United States, Canada and Europe with responses based on their experience using SmartClip Self-Ligating Brackets from 3M U...

In order to solve the problem of energy consumption, improve efficiency utilization and develop new energy, total consumption fluctuation thermal integrated were analyzed. Four suggestions are put forward for power system flexible plant, namely, electric heat storage system, pump g, heating high pressure via steam turbine, which can air capacity reduce coal system. Among them, in case small con...

Purpose: The aim of the study is to compare and analyze Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) Total Effective Performance (TEEP) metrics, identify deficiencies suggest a new usable OEE calculation methodology for manufacturing company. Methodology: results OEE, TEEP, proposed method were compared in faucet production company Turkey. defined scorings used maintain structure focused on losses, TEEP ...