Lean production, which has revolutionary production management and practice manner, is the third milestone of human industrialization history. Its key point is to eliminate waste in all aspects of a firm’s production activities through establishing production system with high agility. It represents the tendency of modern manufacturing industry. It has been credited as the standard production ma...

A central question in the field of language production is the extent to the speech production system is organized for robust communication. One view holds that speakers’ decision to produce more or less clear signals or to speak faster or slower is primarily or even exclusively driven by the demands inherent to production planning. The opposing view holds that these demands are balanced against...

Establishing a suitable balance between grain processing efficiency, grain nutrient yield, adequate feed mixing and delivery and optimal pig performance and health is a complex process. In the absence of vertical integration in the production system, it is likely that implementation of optimal processes for each stage of feed production and use will not be complementary. This review has establi...

This paper proposes the integration of life cycle analysis within the production system models as a tool for decision making (whether at the strategic, tactical or operational levels) attending not only economic and technical criteria but also the environmental impact. This methodological proposal advances over the traditional approach of calculating the value of the environmental impact of a p...

In this paper WC dcscribc an approach to automating the construction of cognitive process models. WC make two psychological assumptions: that cognition can bc modclcd as a production system, and that cognitive behavior involves starch through some problem space. Within this framework, WC employ a problem reduclion approach to constructing cognitive mod&, in which one begins with a set of indcpc...

This study deals with the problem of dependence between production and failure rates within the context of multi part-type production system. It gives an answer about how to produce, i.e. the production rates, and what to produce, i.e. the part-type selection, over a finite horizon of H periods of equal length. We consider a single randomly failing and repairable machine that produces a multi p...

A striking characteristic of Japanese factories is the extent of process control: from both the technical and the social viewpoint the labour and production system is controlled down to the very last detail. The characteristics of management and organization which underlie this are closely interwoven with Japanese culture. This explains why the work content. working conditions and working relat...

Customers demands for highest product quality and lowest product costs and the use of rapidly changing technologies are the challenges for industrial companies. To cope with these challenges production processes need to be more effective. This also applies to the production of innovative micro products. However, the micro production has so far not adopted the advantages of established organizat...

More than a decade ago MSC offered the first parallel production system of MSC/NASTRAN. During this decade MSC has intensified its effort on parallel MSC/NASTRAN and is now ready to deliver MSC/NASTRAN V70.7, which contains very important new parallel features. This paper describes these exciting features and provides preliminary performance results for V70.7. We believe that this system marks ...

Clinical trials pose increasing challenges to sponsors and regulators in terms of execution complexity, timing constraints, risk management, and quality of scientific output. We show how the systematic use of clinical trial data standards, combined with the application of model driven semantic technology within the context of a metadata registry can provide a radical but more effective way to s...