Many studies and reports support the significant impact of the application of group technology on various aspects of product design and manufacturing. The fact that group tech­nology is the common solution to similar problems is the main source of such impact. In this paper, one of the less frequent­ly utilized features of GNG technology known as parametric part programming is used to implement...

Recent developments in diabetes technology— CSII, AP and CGM We are currently in an extremely exciting time for diabetes technology which holds near-term promise to substantially improve the lives of children with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Recent data published by the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange confirms what clinical experience has shown for years, that diabetes control among adolescents and young a...

The paper outlines the results of a two nation cross-cultural study into group decision making within ordinary and computer supported groups. This study examines in a laboratory setting the changes between supported and unsupported groupwork in the values at work during groupwork sessions for groups of Australia and Malaysia. It thereby addresses an aspect of social behaviour. In the experiment...

Wikis (from wikiwiki, meaning “fast” in Hawaiian) are a promising new technology that supports “conversational” knowledge creation and sharing. A Wiki is a collaboratively created and iteratively improved set of web pages, together with the software that manages the web pages. Because of their unique way of creating and managing knowledge, Wikis combine the best elements of earlier conversation...

This paper addresses the problem of products grouping in the tile industry. This production system can be classified as a three-stage hybrid flowshop with sequence dependent and separable setup times. Main objective has been to identify a set of families integrated by products with common features. This classification would help Production Managers to minimize changeover time, allowing them to ...

It is crucial to understand the technical groups of intra-industry and to master the competition in the field of technology. In order to provide valuable information for industry participants and policymakers, a process model for mining technical competitor groups based on IPC classification number is put forward. Firstly, the patent numbers under each IPC are counted for building feature vecto...

A computer assisted modelling methodology is developed for the generation of linearized models with parametric uncertainties described by linear fractional transformations. The starting point of the uncertainty modelling is a class of generic nonlinear aircraft models with explicit parametric dependence used for simulation purposes. The proposed methodology integrates specialized software tools...

This paper presents a survey of similarity-oriented metrics recently developed for use in addressing the group technology machine cell formation problem. This survey seeks to contribute to the theory underlying the group technology machine cell formation problem by identifying themes in the evolution of these metrics in terms of structural form, and in terms of the form and levels of the inform...

The earliest approaches to the cell formation problem in group technology, dealing with a binary machine-part incidence matrix, were aimed only at minimizing the number of intercell moves (exceptional elements in the block-diagonalized matrix). Later on this goal was extended to simultaneous minimization of the numbers of exceptions and voids, and minimization of intercell moves and within-cell...

We develop a new optical switching fabric with multigranularity grooming based on our lambda-group model, as well as algorithms that can handle dynamic environments. The proposed fabric based on a new multi-granular grooming scheme presents the distinctive approach of assigning different contiguous groups of granularities to different paths for effective treatment. Results and figures from expe...